Is affirmative action reverse discrimantion? Please explain y or y not?

Answer 1

Because you are trying to rationalize why we should not at least try level the playing field a little!!

I tell you what, let's stop it, but we also stop automatic seats to big name schools for the wealthy! Isn't that discrimination? Do you think that discriminates against more qualified candidates?And graduate Schools like Harvard accepts a C- graduate of Yale! You think he got there on his merits, or because he was rich white trash? And all of them (99,9%) are WHITE!

You tell me, You think my kid with a 4.0 average can get into Harvard? What if she had a 1.8 from Yale? Think they would accept her?

Now you know why we have mostly garbage for candidates! It's all about money!! And most of us, including blacks don't have any!

Answer 2

I agree with a lot of the other people in which they say it is not reverse discrimination. Without it, believe me, a lot of minorities would not be where they are at now. so I thank God for it. I feel it should be use wisely and not abused. We still have to fight to get to the higher levels. We still have to work our fingers to the bone to get the position that a white person can get at the drop of a dime. We still have to prove ourselves in whatever we do. We still have to go the extra mile. Do you truly believe that if there were no affirmative action, that minorities would be treated fair or equal. Come on and get real. Wake up if you do. Racism is worst now than before, because it is hidden. So blame affirmative action on your forefathers. Remember that the consequences of you sins might not fall on you, but they can and will fall on your children or your children's sons and daughters.

Answer 3

When properly applied, affirmative action is not reverse discrimination. Affirmative action does not (now) involve quotas or giving minorities preferential treatment. In general, it involves giving minorities a slight edge over similarly qualified individuals. The rationale is that, rather than choose at random among equally qualified candidates, people should promote diversity by choosing minorities. That's not really discrimination.

Answer 4

no.

like the civil war, womens suffrage, and the Civil rights act of 64.

Nobody just gives equality.....these groups had to fight for it.

and if you have to be forced to be equal so be it.
if you say no no, just refer to my previous examples.....emancipation had to forced, womens sufrage had to be force....Ending Jim Crow had to be forces.........

why? Because of real racism and sexism........if you are arguing that the White Male is a victim your going to have to do better than that.....


Affrimitive action is not racism... it is a policy that has been upheld by the Supreme Court and within the Consttituional protections.....

Quotas are illegal, the word quotas has been tossed around forever even though there are no quotas......See Baki vs Davis.......

so no.


Part 2

if you give a specific instance, we can talk about it.

"reverse effect on the people that put it into action"
wtf?

if your going to argue the plight of the White Male is the injustice of the century...........

you'll have to do much much better than that.



Regarding Universities.......i answered a similar question.

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Listen the only fair thing to do is a lottery.

Especially in a University Setting....

Think of every 4.0 student with the exact same background and activies.....instinguishable from one another...

Where is the fairness in picking between exactly the same people. except with a lottery.

this argument applies to non 4.0's as well the 3.9s to the .01's
that is why other factors count......or else you agree that the lottery system is fairest.



Your argument about points is valid and is taken into account, there are poor people of all races......great.

And that is why income is always included in points, in any decent Unversity anyways.
just like the rich have their points in Life.


But the problem is the goal was alway to compensate 300 years of exclusion from commerical and educational competition.

it is an issue that is not resolved in one generation...which if you figure 64 as year one... and a genration as every 30 years....then you have barely begun to achieve the objective. "

i understand completely its nobodys fault no one is should pay for the past, no one, i had nothing to do with it, i never benifited,

i could refute all these but i answered your question already.

Answer 5

Yes. Affirmative action is blind to the circumstance of the specific person and only cares about the color of the skin.

Say 2 people live in the same suburban neighborhood, their parents both make 100,000$ dollars a year, both go to the same prestigious high-school, they have same grades, same SAT scores. The only difference is that one of them is black and the other one is white. Why should the black one go to a better college?

Should not affirmative action help all POOR disadvantaged people and not specifically BLACK people?

Answer 6

Yes and no the idea of affirmative action is a noble cause but some businesses take it too far and hire the first minority they find, who may not be as qualified as other minorities, which is weird that i call them that cause in all truth they are the majority, and white people. it can discriminate against all races.

Answer 7

I wouldn't say it is reverse discrimination, its more like a different type of discrimination because it implys that minorities and women, those who recieve help from it, need extra help, that they are not as good as the majority of people and need that extra step to get into college or get a job.

Answer 8

By definition discrimination is giving preferential/or poor treatment to someone because of race. So the answer is YES.

You do not even need to put the "reverse" in front of it. It is outright discrimination.

Answer 9

not. reverse disrimination is when a black employer refuses to hire a person because he is white.

Answer 10

It has a good intent, but i think it can be discriminatory in certain cases.