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Hey, this is the partially examined life episode 278.

Part 2 we've been talking about Derek Bell's faces at the bottom of the well, the permanence

of racism.

I thought maybe we should turn to chapter 3.

The Racial Preferences Licensing Act, which seems to be the most legalistic of the chapters

and gets into this.

We were talking about his cynical take.

So this is Geneva, his alter ego, his muse, suggesting that maybe we just...

give up on having a legal restriction against race-based discrimination and instead turn

it into an economic thing that we say, if you would like your business to be allowed

to racially discriminate, you can do that.

But you have to put up a sign that says we definitely discriminate.

And you have to pay into a fund that will go to like, black colleges and other, you know,

things that basically reparations.

This will both serve to punish by reputation, the people who would be doing this sneakily,

but will also make it much easier to prove discrimination, you know, so that if you're...

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