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@ct_bergstrom
I love this proposed terminology. Great thread.

In this particular post, it seems to me there is a second crucial observation: addressing disparities is possible too, and requires actively counteracting upstream biases. The SCOTUS majority cooked up their affirmative action decision by ignoring that fact; their logic tacitly assumes that disparities (in the paper’s sense) do not exist, and any attempt to counteract them •must• therefore be bias.