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Affirmative Action will at some point end but to pretend that the vestiges of slavery, Jim Crow and discrimination do not impact minorities in this country is, I think, willfully ignorant. But as always, this is a democracy... you can join the likes of Michigan, TX and California and ban affirmative action in your state.
That's a lot to read. You should edit the thing while still making your point. However, you could not be more wrong. You are trying to say that its ok for a company to have no Blacks if it did not find any qualified Blacks. You are so wrong, my friend. That company would be sued into next week. Trust me.
The New Haven Fire Department found no qualified Blacks. Under your theory they should have gone ahead and promoted all Whites. They didn't feel as though they could do that. They felt as though they would get sued and they were correct.
- Reel
re-read it... if they didn't find any qualified blacks.. they are completely within the law to promote whites... but they didn't... so indeed they are wide open for lawsuit....
1. There is no such thing as "reverse discrimination". Discrimination is discrimination.
2. An individual should receive a job based on his/her qualifications, not skin color. If an under-qualified black male gets a job (for simply being black) over a qualified white male, that is discrimination, and it is suitable for the denied white male to sue the institution that rejected him for simply being of European ancestry.
Why aren't White men upset about Affirmative Action in regards to White women? It has been well documented that White women have been and continue to be the largest benefactors of Affirmative Action.
I'm guessing that when the "special privileges" benefit their own bank accounts they have less to whine about.
Affirmative action can punish everyone if it is misused and misapplied.
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Anyway...as to the OP...yes affirmative action does punish whites (especially white males). It IS racism and needs to be abolished.
White males are actually not a majority - we are only about 35%-40%. It's not right to protect 60-65% above the rest. Neither race nor sex should be factors at all in most employment decisions, college admissions decisions, etc.
Because Blacks and Hispanics are the "inferior peoples". White woman are the sweet angels who could never do any wrong.
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Why aren't White men upset about Affirmative Action in regards to White women? It has been well documented that White women have been and continue to be the largest benefactors of Affirmative Action.
I'm guessing that when the "special privileges" benefit their own bank accounts they have less to whine about.
Wow. And everybody thinks of Texas as being such a Republican state. I would never have guessed that they'd have a system like that.
They actually came up with a much better system. The top 10% of ANY high school graduating class is automatically guaranteed a place at Texas public university.
Why aren't White men upset about Affirmative Action in regards to White women?
How do you know they aren't? Anyone I've ever talked to about it wants AA done away with simply because it gives preferential treatment to minority groups.
For ford's sake, there is no such thing as reverse discimination.
It's either discrimination or it's not discrimination.
How difficult is this?
Thank you! I'm not the only one who knows "reverse discrimination" is a BS term.
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Anyone I've ever talked to about it wants AA done away with simply because it gives preferential treatment to minority groups.
I'm not the only one who knows "reverse discrimination" is a BS term.
