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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Because. Quotas and affirmative action based on race and gender exist.
There isn't a ugly person quota or child of single parents quota.
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Part of that is because even if account for socioeconomic factors in the US minorities are still under represented at post secondary institutions so a policy based on purely economics would over represent whites. There are many programs that are targeted at socioeconomic factors independant of race.
You are right that in our society we do allow a lot of discrimination based on appearance and weight and that is something we should work towards eliminating. I’m not sure affirmative action type policies would work though as defining what is ugly would be problematic.