&gt; if it can be fixed why not fix it?<p>Because your cure is worse than the disease.<p>&gt; you don&#x27;t think any effort should be spent trying to correct something that&#x27;s broken in the world.<p>I think racism is bad. I think it&#x27;s bad in <i>all circumstances</i> because it corrupts our meritocratic society.<p>Using racism to fix racism is dumb. Because racism is bad in <i>all circumstances</i>.