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Excellent article. Really enjoyed it. Two thoughts:

1) All bureaucracies resist their own obsolescence. As the EID complex becomes a permanent fixture, it will be required to justify its own existence by finding issues requiring correction in a wider and wider range. The elimination or correction of one norm will simply be require the EID to find another. In this way, perpetuating 'racism' while rooting out racism will become a necessary cycle.

2) If we accept that the goals of EID are laudable, how can we be sure they will pursue it optimally. Right leaning thinkers (Sowell chief among them) bring up cultural/familial issues that may play a role in race outcomes. These ideas may or may not be correct, but they have already been deemed as racist by the EID. If there is any validity to those and similar claims then they will be overlooked or ignored by the EID, which could perpetuate racial disparity. (To be clear I'm not saying there is validity to those ideas, only that those issues shouldn't be ignored if their examination will help improve outcomes). As with (1) this would see the EID actually perpetuating racism or delaying racial equality as certain causes are too dangerous/'racist' to explore.

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