@JS1901291 said in #1:
> Anyone else on Lichess that can relate to this?
I sincerely empathize, JS.
Recently, Asian students actually sued college admissions departments (Harvard among them) for rejecting qualified Asian applicants to balance racial quotas. In the summer of 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that admissions policies based on race violate the Equal Protection Clause. This is public record, so I wont bother with News articles.
The root of the problem at Harvard was an ideology based on the simplistic 'oppressor vs oppressed' narrative, which replaces the 'class conflict' of Marx--the idea all workers were exploited by employers--with an equally dubious theory of race conflict--the idea that prosperous races succeed at the direct expense of others. Hence, reverse-discrimination policies.
But the central thesis of Marx, that market economies would lead to increasing misery, turned out to be false. Working conditions have greatly improved, and there is no longer a strong sense that the worker is being exploited. Applying this to race implies races would become more polarized over time, which seems like a false narrative.
For a breakdown of what Marx got wrong, I'd recommend 'The Open Society and Its Enemies' Popper, 1945. Resurrecting a false theory and apply it to race is disastrous. The conclusion of Marxism is that the only remedy is violent revolution. If applied to race, this means a race war. Anyone who mixes race and class conflict theory (see Critical Race Theory) is unhinged.
