People propose hypothetical situations as part of a question all the time and then you're asked to try and come up with an appropriate answer for that situation. Opting to discard the hypothetical and answer based on your worldview is of course something you're free to do.
You really can't conceive of any possible way that disadvantaged groups could be given more resources? Have you heard of gold mines? Oil wells? Stock markets? Resources are "created" all the time. A harsh and immediate refusal to even consider a hypothetical scenario like this indicates a lack of imagination on your part, not a failure on the part of the researchers.
> People propose hypothetical situations as part of a question all the time and then you're asked to try and come up with an appropriate answer for that situation. Opting to discard the hypothetical and answer based on your worldview is of course something you're free to do.
Nobody is discarding the hypothetical, just confronting the unstated and unsupported assumptions upon which it is predicated.
> You really can't conceive of any possible way that disadvantaged groups could be given more resources?
As an aside — membership in groups based on race, gender, or disability says nothing about an individual’s disadvantage.
Resource redistribution based on identity group is, in of itself, an inherently biased and discriminatory proposal.
> Resources are "created" all the time.
… and inequitably distributing newly created resources disadvantages the identity groups you choose to selectively marginalize.
> A harsh and immediate refusal to even consider a hypothetical scenario like this indicates a lack of imagination on your part, not a failure on the part of the researchers.
My imagination is quite capable of encompassing what the researchers believe about their hypotheticals, and why they’re wrong.
My imagination is further capable of encompassing why they believe that the disagreement of the majority of their study subjects represents a misperception of reality, as opposed to a recognition of the flaws inherent in both their ideology and work.
You really can't conceive of any possible way that disadvantaged groups could be given more resources? Have you heard of gold mines? Oil wells? Stock markets? Resources are "created" all the time. A harsh and immediate refusal to even consider a hypothetical scenario like this indicates a lack of imagination on your part, not a failure on the part of the researchers.