Affirmative action.?

Question

Most are against it,rightly so. Do you realize tha tax breaks companies get for other hiring practices not dealing with race or gender? People that used be on public assistance,even if they are not recieving it at the time of hiring. Ex cons. Drug testing. I believe there are others too,all unfair hiring practices. How do you feel about it?

Answer 1

Affirmative action is discrimination -- even if it is discrimination intended to help people based on some idea that helping some people now balances against harming other people before.

Personally, I don't see that as a balance -- it's just an excuse.

We'll never achieve true non-discrimination as long as we make distinctions (for good or bad) based on race, gender, or any other personal characteristic.

Answer 2

Yes, and thank you.
Democrats in Congress, with our Union Money, have given all kinds of privileges to all kinds of people.

They are all against the people that have been Working People for Generations.

Anytime "Anyone" gets Special Treatment, some on else gets screwed.
That's the way Government Works.
And Democrats LOVE to decide who gets screwed!!!!!
It makes them feel goooood!

Answer 3

Yep, hate it.

"Affirmative action involves discrimination based upon race and skin color."
"Affirmative action replaces societal prejudices with institutionalized racism."
"Affirmative action unfairly judges applicants based on race."
"By emphasizing race, affirmative action prevents an American consciousness from developing which is not based on race."
"Disadvantage is not necessarily correlated with or determined by race or ethnicity."
"Affirmative action does not result in an equality of opportunity because it requires the creation of an inequality of opportunity in order to achieve an equality of results. This is counter to the democratic principles of equal rights and equal opportunity."
"Affirmative action does not lead to true diversity."
"Diversity does not depend solely on skin color or ethnicity; even people of the same background can bring different perspectives. Other factors could produce diversity of opinion as well, including different political and religious beliefs, regional differences, different majors or intellectual interests, different educational backgrounds, etc."
"Affirmative action does not help the most disadvantaged minorities."
"Affirmative action calls into question the achievements of minorities."
"Groups favored by affirmative action will become dependent on its benefits."
"Affirmative action and all other admissions policies which are not based on academic merit make credentials and admissions meaningless and/or less impressive to the extent that they are applied. The resulting decline in the prestige and quality of academic institutions affects everyone, not just the beneficiaries of affirmative action."
"By admitting lesser candidates, you prevent people with more potential from getting access to the resources they need to contribute to society. This results in a corresponding decline in achievement in general - in both academics and the workplace."
"Affirmative action disincentives minorities to earn higher test scores."
"Affirmative action makes the members of former or present dominant groups pay for the mistakes of their ancestors in the past."
"Affirmative action makes those who were never members of dominant groups (like Asians and Jews) pay for the mistakes of dominant groups"

Answer 4

Like my friend says, "It's not stereotyping, minorities are lazy. Who would hire them?"





Riiiight....

Answer 5

AA is a cancer upon this nation.