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so if you have a child with a learning disability such that he will never make more than minimum wage, if that, then what? will you refuse help from society?
the discrimination issue is not the same as learning disabilities, it is racism that has been reduced in the last 50 years, but by no means eliminated. Do we let children starve because their parents are "colored"?
Not sure if I'm reading you right, but I certainly support educating and training those who are willing to be educated and trained and to work. Is society required, though, to guarantee that everybody earn above minimum wage? If your skills and abilities limit you to minimum wage, is this bad or wrong? Is there not a place in our society for everybody, and are there not minimum-wage jobs to be done that are necessary to society too?
As for "discrimination," so long as our brains are human, we are going to recognize, characterize, and distinguish because that's what the human brain does. It recognizes similar/dissimilar, and etc. You can work on dissolving the bonds of kinship (as did the Party in 1984) and all the other human factors including ego and pride, but I don't think there will ever be a human society free of "discrimination" unless we manage to standardize human beings themselves.
Increasingly, American society is being divided not by the haves/have nots but, rather, but by the works/won't works. No, we don't let babies of color--any color--starve. I would be very happy if every school district provided breakfasts, lunches, and end-of-day snacks for every kid in this country. I'll happily pay my share!
But that doesn't change the fact that this is 2012, that education is available for all and other resources too. It doesn't explain why just about half of us work while the other half sits their asses. And I don't think skin color is nearly the issue that those who race-bait, particularly those who make a living at doing so, do.