Do you have proof of this? Did this actually happen to you? If so, how were you so sure that this person was less qualified? Affirmative action is use for EQUALLY qualified candidates, not less, in case you didn't know this people.
2006-10-06 18:31:34 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes, the last part you said "if you are qualified you wouldn't need the policy" is true. But mostly if you are a white male, so yeah you are partly right about that. As for the rest, why do you care? If you qualify for the job, why do you feel threatened by someone just as qualified who actually has a chance against you, fair and square?
2006-10-06 18:39:07 · update #1
Not sure. But i think it's a good system. I've actually witnessed a minority lose a job to myself. He was early, i was late, he was dressed in a tie, i was not and i still got the job. I knew and he knew that the minute i walked in the door, i had the job. Non minorities have tremendous advantage for being born a non minority, we just don't like to admit it. Affirmative action is balance. It just sucks that you have to impose something like affirmative action in the first place to get balance. If a less qualified minority happens to sneak past someone more qualified, then good, because it sure as heck happens the other way around and has been happening for a long time.
2006-10-06 18:44:05 · answer #1 · answered by divad 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Affirmative action was started to help people that had traditionally been denied an equal opportunity to participate in employment, education, etc. I don't think anyone could deny that there was injustice in the past that needed to be addressed. But some Affirmative Action programs morphed into quotas, and I think that goes against the traditional American view that the best qualified should be selected. If you are told you have to admit or hire 20% of a particular group whether they are the best qualified or not that is wrong.
2006-10-06 18:38:46 · answer #2 · answered by mk_matson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do your homework and you will find out that many times the person benefiting from affirmative action is less qualified but the quota has not been met so they get the job or the placement in college.
2006-10-06 18:42:35 · answer #3 · answered by # one 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
They just use that as a "excuse for their own failures", "lazy" "uneducated" and "wanting something for nothing". With hard work and a good education they can make something of their self and stop blaming their problem on others.
Why didn't they see hundreds of years of what in fact was the best privileged ever? Free labor! They see this issue as "get over it" now they can take their own advice and "get over it."
2006-10-06 18:38:42 · answer #4 · answered by justme 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
UT medical ended Affirm.Action and found itself short of minority applicants. If reinstated it.
Affrimative Action is a racist, sexist policy used by the Democrats to buy minority votes. If you were qualified, you wouldn't need the policy.
2006-10-06 18:36:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋