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View Poll Results: Should We Keep or End Affirmative Action?
We Should Keep Affirmative Action 14 12.61%
We Should End Affirmative Action 97 87.39%
Voters: 111. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-24-2016, 01:18 PM
 
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I'm not from Texas (not that it's an insult) but that diploma from The University of NannyNannyBooBoo is showing, dude.

Only black people...bc Asians and middle east folks get the social racism without the advantages of getting sh** they didn't earn.
African-Americans as a people have earned far more than they received in this blasted country. They are better than me having to listening to nonsense like the above. That's all I have to say...
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Old 06-24-2016, 01:22 PM
 
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Time hasn't changed that much.

Sorry, but whites had AA for a few centuries. I can't sign on to this idea that we've fixed the horrible affects of hundreds of years of white privilege in just 4 or 5 decades. Wanna get rid of AA...fine. But not until past matters have been rectified. And they absolutely HAVE NOT been rectified at all.
And all of the griping is so that they can maintain the benefits of their affirmative action. They want to be the ones who benefited the most, then and now. And really, white women have benefited the most from recent affirmative action policies.
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Old 06-24-2016, 02:13 PM
 
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What evidence do you have that the growth of white women in college and in the workforce is due to Affirmative Action?
People label all blacks that succeed at doing anything AA babies completely without evidence, so it's about time somebody point the finger at white women. They qualify too.

"She's just there because she's a woman!"
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Old 06-24-2016, 02:18 PM
 
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Until everyone gets equal opportunities, I will support affirmative action.

How would you feel if the NFL and NBA use affirmative action and mandates that short Asians and Native Americans have to be drafted and represented.

Are you really in favor of equal opportunity or equal result?
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Old 06-24-2016, 02:22 PM
 
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How would you feel if the NFL and NBA use affirmative action and mandates that short Asians and Native Americans have to be drafted and represented.

Are you really in favor of equal opportunity or equal result?
The NFL and NBA (and the MLB) all used AA in the early years of their leagues. College sports too. They dropped it because they didn't like it.
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Old 06-24-2016, 02:26 PM
 
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The NFL and NBA (and the MLB) all used AA in the early years of their leagues. College sports too. They dropped it because they didn't like it.
Isn't it then way overdue to drop affirmative action in college admission too, because pretty much everyone doesn't like it?
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Old 06-24-2016, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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If Affirmative Action is totally abolished at private and public universities, there will be 40% Asians at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, etc. and blacks will go from double digit percentage to like 2%. Are you okay with that?
I'm perfectly fine with that. It's pretty much saying a lot of blacks are there because they're quota fillers...which is fairly racist and demeaning to the blacks that belong there because they're lumped in with the people that shouldn't be there.

AA is non-sense. If there is evidence that somebody was denied because of their race and or sex, there should be consequences, but this notion of quotas is fairly insulting and keeping out people that would be there if there wasn't a quota to meet.
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Old 06-24-2016, 02:30 PM
 
Location: Suburb of Chicago
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Isn't it then way overdue to drop affirmative action in college admission too, because pretty much everyone doesn't like it?
Post your source for this.
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Old 06-24-2016, 02:34 PM
 
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I'm not from Texas (not that it's an insult) but that diploma from The University of NannyNannyBooBoo is showing, dude.

Only black people...bc Asians and middle east folks get the social racism without the advantages of getting sh** they didn't earn.
Yeah, it is an insult. What you think of my Alma Mater is immaterial (that would be THE Arizona State University). At least i have a degree. Maybe you should've worked harder in school. Then maybe you could've went to college too instead of being salty at me.

As for your "only black people" comment, well i'm black. Who in the hell else am i supposed to care about? Other groups can stand up for themselves without my help.

If Asians and Middle Easterners have to deal with social racism (strange at how you're so willing to admit that THEY are victims of racism...yeah, i spotted that), then they'd better roll up their sleeves and fight it. They weren't on the front lines when we were at the Pettus Bridge or marching through Birmingham.

"sh#t they didn't earn?" LMAO...that's funny. See, i'm not one of those apologetic blacks that feels the need to mollify you with talk about how we earned this or that. I'm not interested in convincing you of anything. If i have something that you think i didn't earn, well....too bad. Maybe i DIDN'T earn it!!! So what!! I hope it makes you angry too. Because you can't do squat about it.
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Old 06-24-2016, 02:34 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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The ability to go to ANY college or university should be based on academic merit ONLY!

THIS ^^^^^ x10 and I'd add "being hired" as well.
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