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He is held up to the consequences of his own actions. #4 is not having his rights taken away bc some poor kid wrote an essay and got a spot at a university doing science for the summer, and #4s family made too much money for him to qualify.
#4 still has the connections that make it possible to call up family friends and say #4 wants to work in a lab this summer, here are his hours make it happen, and definitely has the money to go to a science camp for an entire summer.
Professor O'Hara's kid might also not qualify for that particular spot. Luckily he has his own connections, despite growing up poor, because professor O'Hara qualified for a similar spot as a kid and now he works at a university.
Some random kid like myself, who grew up poor white trash, with zero connections, but will become the first person in their family to graduate from college, yet have no idea how to navigate college when they get there, could really benefit from getting a spot like that.
I would have qualified, but I didn't have that particular opportunity as a kid. Luckily there were other programs available that helped me navigate college once I got there. Thanks to those programs, I have also gotten to work with other kids who will also become the first in their family to graduate from college.
Those types of programs and practices are exactly where the majority of villainized DEI funding actually goes to. Funny that nobody seems to give a fuck about where that funding is now going instead, and who will benefit.
Don't worry about #4 though, he'll be just fine bc it turns out he happened to get a huge government contract to help build the new data center in town. Maybe someday my kids will have the privilege of toiling in one of his kid's factories, and fighting their boss for the right to unionize. Just like in the good ole days (and like my own father tried and failed to do multiple times when I was growing up). Is that what progress is supposed to look like?