Say a student government wants to write a new constitution. And say that student government has in its current government voting seats for various student orgs including orgs based around ethnicity AKA the "X student association/group/whatever".
Now in this new constitution the number of student orgs is increased from 7 to 10. But it was decided that seven will be permanent seats and the new seats will be able to be applied for by other orgs that are not represented currently. Say that some of the permanent seats are given to ethnic orgs that are currently popular and large in number but may not have been in the past or in the future. For a constitution that will be around for at least 10-15 years, wouldn't you say that this is not fair to any future ethnic orgs that become large in number as the student demographics change over time? Wouldn't you say that the mere fact that some ethnicities are large in number currently does not mean we should give them decades of permanent power? Wouldn't you say that this in fact goes against the value of the student government of promoting the representation of all groups that have been disenfranchised over history? Wouldn't you say that this borders on racism since you are giving every other group scraps to fight over while you get the privilege of never worrying about your vote?
This is all hypothetical by the way.
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