Race-based burdens can serve distributive justice without constituting dignity violations when they remedy prior systematic exclusions, as Rawls's difference principle permits differential treatment for the least advantaged.
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The Difference Principle(as a rule for judging fairness)
Rawls's idea that inequality in a society is only fair if it makes the worst-off people better off than they would be under a more equal system.
differential treatment(as used in ethics and philosophy of justice)
Treating people differently from one another—for instance, giving some people advantages or disadvantages based on a specific characteristic.
distributive justice
The domain of justice concerned with identifying the conditions under which the distribution of liberties, opportunities, and goods that society makes available to persons is just or morally fair