The reason people get jobs because they are women or minority is because otherwise they would be turned down.
White people always say "People should get hired for jobs based on skills and not there race etc..."
I agree... but we all know this is not how it works. If you bring in a white male with the same skills as a woman or minority... the white male will usually get the job! Without affirmative action... minorities will be oppressed even more because racist people will not give them a chance. They will just hire their white friends for jobs who have equal or LESS still level than the minorities!
This still goes on now. Yes its wrong that some white people may get turned way from this law.. but in the end.. they still have an advantage compared to others.
Why don't people see this?
2007-12-21 01:07:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Yes, we do.
However, just because the racism of affirmative action is a reponse to widespread racism, that does not make it right.
peace :)
2007-12-21 01:12:17 · answer #1 · answered by slinkywizzard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know you probably don't really give a rat's *ss here but I'm a white male who has the disadvantage of being disabled. I know that it may be shocking to some but not all white males has the "advantage" of being a white male.
You got many white males that are wheelchair bound and has the disadvantage of being unable to walk. Then their are some white males that are blind and has the disadvantage of not being able to see. There are also some white males who has other disabilities such as missing limbs, being deaf, having autism, just to name some of the disabilities that hinder people in all walks of life from obtaining the same opportunities that the "normal" people has.
Do you honestly think that being a white male will help if this white male is disabled? If you truly think that employers will overlook a person's disability in favor of their race or gender you need to go visit the state rehabilitation center for the disabled ASAP just so you can see what the disabled has to endure on a daily basis.
2007-12-21 03:42:06 · answer #2 · answered by Whatever 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not true all the time. some guy who was white sent in an application to Harvard Law School and did not get in. He then sent the same exact information, but put that he was black and then he got into Harvard...
crazy....but minorities sometimes get the good life too.
2007-12-21 01:11:02 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think we are at a element the place we are in a position to finally enable pass of affirmative action. even if i do no longer know how I benefitted from it. Is there an application you fill out to get it? To the guy who thinks the presidential elections would desire to do with affirmative action, it does no longer, through fact the president is "elected" by ability of the human beings, and no you will tension you to vote for a guy or woman through fact of their race. Affirmative action became into instituted to furnish a point playing container for minorities besides as whites, and it became into theory that it would leave as quickly because it became into no longer needed, or as quickly as the institutionalized discrimination became into now no longer as rampant because it became into in the '60s. It became into no longer a racist coverage, it became into instituted as a results of discrimination in training and employment of minorities. i think of on the instant it somewhat is needed below it became into 40 yrs in the past. This application has been a double-edged sword of kinds. human beings say we are unqualified, yet we are employed and knowledgeable besides through this application, yet whilst no longer for this technique, we had much less of a raffle than others, merely in accordance with ethnicity. And on precise of that, whites experience that this technique discriminates against them and forces them to hire a minority over a "extra advantageous qualified white guy or woman".
2016-10-09 01:05:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Affirmative action IS racist and sexist.It is one of the most despicable things that has ever been imposed on society.Would you want to go to a doctor who otherwise couldn't get into medical school except for his race?Not me.I want a doctor who is a doctor due to his or her brains.
2007-12-21 05:15:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are right. It is so obvious but willful blindness still exists and unless someone is part of a minority they can never understand the life long struggle against racism, sexism, homophobia, religious intolerance etc...
2007-12-21 01:40:23 · answer #6 · answered by X-Ray 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes they realize that but that's besides the point. Acknowledging it would be like admitting to being an alcoholic.
2007-12-21 01:10:22 · answer #7 · answered by sidneygus 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
While what you say has a small bit of truth, it is clearly not true in the majority of cases. Most medium to large businesses are very multicultural and well mixed in terms of sex, race and other distinctions.
2007-12-21 01:11:50 · answer #8 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
As long as some people blame their failures on racism, they will cry for extra privileges.
2007-12-21 01:12:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
are you stupid go read a book moron. everybody that has read past history knows that blacks get jobs over whites just because their black. go watch american history x itll show you on how blacks get jobs just because their black quit hating white people because their better than you go to college and get a job loser.
2007-12-24 21:50:23 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋