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    Challenges→Quota systems requiring preferential hiring of blacks until proportional representation is achieved may be justified as a means of increasing effective opportunities for blacks.

    Targeting proportional representation as the benchmark for corrected opportunity smuggles in an egalitarian outcome metric that the equal opportunity framework was never designed to guarantee.

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    Corrected opportunity(as used in debates about affirmative action and social justice)
    Attempts to fix or adjust for past unfair disadvantages so that people can compete on a more level playing field.
    Egalitarian outcome metric(as used in discussions of justice and equality)
    A way of measuring fairness that focuses on whether everyone ends up with roughly equal results or rewards, rather than just having equal chances.
    Equal opportunity framework(as used in political and social philosophy)
    A theory of fairness focused on making sure everyone has the same chance to compete and succeed, regardless of their background—as opposed to guaranteeing everyone the same outcome.
    Smuggles in(argumentation and logic)
    Introduces something quietly or without acknowledgment, making it seem innocent when it's actually a controversial addition.

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    proportional representation(Mill's argument for democratic electoral design)
    An electoral system in which minority points of view receive effective expression proportional to their share of the population, as opposed to winner-take-all systems that may silence or marginalize minority perspectives.

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