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    Race-based burdens can serve distributive justice without... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Cohen's substantive equality principle fails to adequately ground the claim that race-based burdens invariably violate dignity

    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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    Dignity violations(as used in discussions of human rights and ethics)
    Actions or policies that treat people as if they don't deserve respect or aren't fully human—damage to a person's sense of worth.
    Race-based burdens(as used in discussions of fairness and equality)
    Policies or requirements that specifically affect people of certain races differently—like affirmative action programs that consider race in admissions.
    Rawls(as the philosopher whose ideas are being referenced)
    John Rawls, a 20th-century philosopher famous for developing theories about justice and fairness in society.
    Systematic exclusions(as used in discussions of historical injustice)
    A pattern where certain groups of people are deliberately kept out of opportunities, rights, or resources over a long period of time.

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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

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