Quote Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh View Post
As an ideal, you are completely correct.

However, the argument for special protection or preferred treatment for various "out-groups" is not solely about "catching up" for past mistreatment. The better arguments put forward by (at least the smarter ones among) those favoring such special efforts center on the continued institutional prejudice embodied by rules, regulations, and others aspects of the bureaucracy and the laws that are an integral part of the polity in question. The idea here is that these 'legacy' elements of the current system as it is will perpetuate the mistreatment even with no active efforts to discriminate on the part of those currently in the "in group." Thus the special treatment is needed to rebalance the playing field itself before reverting to an "each evaluated on their merits" system.

What say you to this line of argument?
The question is WHEN this reverting will happen. Who is to determine this time? What are the conditions for reverting? Won't those who are affected by the reverting clamor that they are again discriminated against?