2006-12-04 03:59:17 · 14 answers · asked by Mutt 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Does it hurt by keeping prejudice and hate for minorities alive by giving them special treatment?
2006-12-04 04:01:35 · update #1
I think it's done as sort of an emergency measure... whatever the reason, certain minorities are at a disadvantage and affirmative action helps even the playing field. You can't just ask an employer if they're racist because they won't tell you the truth, so you just have to assume that when employers are hiring a much higher percentage of white people than the actual percentage of white people in the population, there is either something wrong with the employers' hiring techniques or with society that needs a solution. is affirmative action the best solution? well that's debatable, but if it's not, come up with a better one... I haven't yet. Except for publicly-funded colleges, it's common in other nations to provide colleges for free, it provides competition to reduce the price of private schools and it also means anyone who can afford to take the time to study can do it.
2006-12-04 04:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by Aleksandr 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No laws or social programs can change the hate for others. If someone is determined to hate or feel their apathy is justified, no amount of logic, common sense or legal wranglings are going to change their mind.
America doesn't need affirmative action. It needs to admit to the deep and abiding disparities that exist along race, gender and class lines and stop dancing around those facts. Only then can we come up with real solutions to permanently empower the historically-disadvantaged to make the most of what our economy has to offer.
I think the first step is to overhaul our education system from the bottom up. That still leaves the hiring/govt contracts problem open but I'm willing to take one step at a time.
2006-12-04 04:13:38 · answer #2 · answered by In 2 Deep 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has helped in the past. I think it now should not be based just on on race but financial background.
As far as creating hate through special treatment, I believe that the reasons for race based hate go a lot deeper than Affirmative Action and the "special privilege" argument is just window dressing to hide base racism, as it ignores all the built in advantages that white males have in the system.
2006-12-04 04:07:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It helps them.
To suggest that social programs are the root of racism is to exhibit a shocking ignorance of history that I hope never to see.
Furthermore, if we're going to suggest that helping people (through government assistance) actually hurts them, then we must be doing horrible damage to the petroleum industry with all of our subsidies. Clearly, though, that isn't the case, as they keep turning in record profits.
However, we must remember that Affirmative Action programs were clearly designed to be temporary. The question, then, is whether or not our nation is so color-blind that they are no longer necessary. Perhaps a potential Obama candidacy in 2008 will go a long way toward answering that question.
2006-12-04 04:03:28 · answer #4 · answered by Steve 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
helps minorities... hurts Caucasians..even women Caucasians..I don't think it causes hate.. I think it causes people to be upset though with the system, because it's not necessary anymore.. I mean are there really minorities anymore in the US...- when you go shopping at Walmart.. are the majority of all the customers white??? No.. at least not where I live.. maybe smaller towns in the US.. but no major city
hichefheidi: if that is a fact.. I would love to see your source because I am a white American female.. and Affirmative Action does NOTHING for me or my family, or my friends... so please... if you are going to state something as a fact.. show your source
2006-12-04 04:02:14 · answer #5 · answered by katjha2005 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It hurts everyone, minorities end up not having to have real value in themselves because they can get and keep a job just because they are a minority, companies suffer because they might not get the best they can get due to the laws of affirmative action and other people might not get a job they deserve due toi the laws.
I feel that anyone who is qualified for the job should get the job, not get the job becaquse of what color they are.
2006-12-04 04:23:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't think it fosters hate, but it does foster racism. By its very nature it is saying that all on not equal and some need special treatment to make it. That is pretty offensive, race should not be a determing factor for anything, positive or negative. Everything should be personal merit.
2006-12-04 04:13:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It hurts them.
The area where minorities have made the greatest strides have been in the military - where there is no affirmative action.
2006-12-04 04:20:52 · answer #8 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hurt! There is no way that handling people on the basis of race will ever be benificial. And the liberals support AA like its some great equalizer, but the liberals are the ones who also claim that race is made up, that racial distinctions don't exist. Its inconsistant. But honestly, AA is terribly racist, and the only way to end racism is to quit considering things by race...the only way
2006-12-04 04:07:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
i like the way you ask your secondary question...the assumptive close as they call it...kinda like "yes or no, have you stopped beating your mother"
anyway to your point Aff Action hurts everyone...without Aff Action, everyone also gets hurt, just worse. Having Aff Action is the least worst.
2006-12-07 01:22:05 · answer #10 · answered by Ted Jordan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋