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“Are you going to say that the solution is a perpetual victim complex?”

At the Fortune Workplace Summit, EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas claimed that addressing historical discrimination should not require "present discrimination," arguing that that approach creates “an endless cycle” of oppression and power struggles.

“That is an ugly version of our country because it begets discrimination after discrimination after discrimination,” Lucas said.

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00:00no one can deny racism marred our country for decades but also our founding had this concept
00:06right we're celebrating the 250th anniversary of our nation and in the founding at the very
00:11start of the birth of our nation we said people were individuals created by god worthy of individual
00:17dignity regardless of what the government did or said justice thomas has spoken recently
00:22beautifully about this he's a former chair of the eoc and so i think the question is how are you
00:28going to solve what happened in our country are you going to say that the the solution is a perpetual
00:35victim complex where the reason someone should have rights is because they were victimized previously
00:41i would say and so the idea of like great kendy says the only remedy to past discrimination is
00:47present discrimination the only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination and i say
00:52to that absolutely not that is an ugly version of our country because it begets discrimination
00:58after discrimination after discrimination it is an endless cycle of someone is powerful and
01:03someone is oppressed and we are constantly deciding whose rights are based on something that is this
01:10constant cycle
01:12so
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