I live in a predominately white community and I've seen people passed over for jobs who were more qualified than the people who were hired simply because a company had to fill it's quota for hiring minorities, isn't that discrimination against white people?
2007-05-02 16:37:20 · 13 answers · asked by Girly Q 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
It is quite simple really. If a minority comes up to me on the street and calls me a "cracker", I, being in the "privileged" majority have to take it. If it were the other way around, it would be called racism. It's all rather hypocritical. What's good for the goose is definitely not good for the gander. Thank the liberals for this and all of the P.C. crap out there.
2007-05-02 17:25:49 · answer #1 · answered by Al S 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I've heard people claim that they weren't hired because they were white and the companies were "filling quotas." However, if this is true, those people need to see their lawyers. Affirmative action is not about filling quotas.
Here are my favorite metaphors for affirmative action:
People view it like a race between a black person and a white person. Even though the white person wins, the black person is awarded a medal.
However, that's just biggotted propoganda.
Affirmative action is more like a white person and a black person running a race, only the black person has to carry a fifty pound weight. They finish at the same time, but the black person is awarded the medal because even though they tied, the black person had to work that much harder to win the race.
If the people you know weren't hired and black people were hired instead, it means that those black people were equally qualified, but the company recognizes that they had to work harder to get to where they are. That dedication and work ethic deserves to be rewarded.
2007-05-02 19:17:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure you've seen where "they" play THAT CARD in situations... Well now it's time for you to play THE CARD... Now since I don't know you're age, but it could be that your so-called manager is just trying to flex his authority over you, plus the other aspect you mentioned.. But I wouldn't sit back on my behind on this.. Go over the top... Or better scenario - get the hell out of there and find something else... Rachelle In High Heels
2016-05-19 03:44:18 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This can be true. companies may hire a minority or a women employee over a male or a white because they can be sued very easily. If say, an asian woman and a white ran for the same job and were equally qualified, many companies will take the minority so that others cant say that they are racist or discriminatory.
2007-05-02 16:52:00 · answer #4 · answered by ♫♪ makes me :D 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have lived a long time and seen a lot of people passed over for jobs and promotions who I thought were more qualified than the people who got the jobs. Many more were women and minorities than were "white " men. Life is not fair, but affirmative action does not make it less fair, it just distributes the unfairness more evenly.
2007-05-02 17:50:02 · answer #5 · answered by meg 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Double standard. How can it be discrimination if it is against white people? Aren't they the most evil of all races of people they were never slaves they were slave owners. OH that is correct that is where the term red neck came from bond slavery. Over 100 years and still paying for it. That's life
2007-05-02 16:51:48 · answer #6 · answered by comon sence 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably because we have been dominent in most areas of the world we choose to inhabit and so we are not counted as a minority, therefore we cannot be bullied. However if you were to go up to a pakistani man in the U.K. and call him something obscene it is considered not fair as he is in a minority in the country. It is a strange one but we do have issues with discrimination, it was White people who were Nazis, White people who are the Ku Klux Klan, White people who upheld Apartheid...
2007-05-02 16:47:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Racism is a mental and social disease. Only the mad and the dregs of a society chose to differentiate humanity along lines of how much melanin marshals in ones skin. Personally, I think we should differentiate between people who have freckles and those who do not. Naturally, those with freckles are far superior. NO! Wait! Let's differentiate people between those who can bend their thumbs backwards at the first joint vs. those genetically inferior so-called "humans" who cannot bend their thumbs backwards at that clearly all-important joint. Naturally, I have freckles and a superior thumb joint. Excuse me. But, if you don't have freckles, you'll have to sit at the back of the bus. What's your problem, you stiff-thumbed inferior lower-lifeform? What part of "We serve only thumb-benders here" did you not understand? Can't you just see it now? Soon, we'll have a thumb-bending, freckle counting test before we'll be allowed to vote. LOL
2007-05-02 16:44:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
you calling people minorities is racism
the white race has been known as the best race ever and its not true race doesn't matter
it could be racism but then again maybe the "minority" as you call it had something the white person didn't
2007-05-02 16:47:11 · answer #9 · answered by Edith 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
because life isn't fair for anyone... but it's BY FAR closer to being fair for white people, than anyone else...
it's like someone complaining about a hangnail, while other people are being beheaded... most people don't really care...
2007-05-02 16:47:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋