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Random Topics - Affirmative action
Affirmative action refers to policies that take race, ethnicity, physical disabilities, military career, sex, or a person's parents' social class into consideration in an attempt to promote equal opportunity or increase ethnicity or other forms of diversity. The focus of such policies ranges from employment and education to public contracting and health programs. The impetus towards affirmative action is twofold: to maximize diversity in all levels of society, along with its presumed benefits, and to redress perceived disadvantages due to overt, institutional, or involuntary discrimination. Opponents argue that it promotes reverse discrimination.
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Affirmative action is an attempt to "rectify" for "past wrongs" - no amount of money or easy jobs will change what happened in the past. What's done is done, MOVE FORWARD. It's one thing to know about past mistakes so they won't be repeated, it's another to show favor towards one group over another because of what happened in the past. -- Submitted By: (BigAl) on November 3, 2010, 10:05 am - (3 votes)
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Affirmative Action has passed it's time. Now it's just a new and different type of racism. At what point does this program end? Why is this never discussed? Boned, just not sure exactly when. -- Submitted By: (Chubby Rain) on March 8, 2010, 9:46 am - (3 votes)
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Affirmatove action is all the proof you need that liberals aren't trying to stamp out racism, they're actually and actively contributing to it. -- Submitted By: (DolFan316) on March 6, 2010, 6:06 pm - (3 votes)
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My problem with affirmative action is that it seems to go against the concept of equal opportunities. It's one thing to accommodate those who are at a disadvantage who are otherwise qualified.
AA seems more letting someone in that may not be qualified simply because of something over which they have little to no control.
If they *are* qualified, one should judge giving them the job or admitting them to the school based on the same standards for everyone.
I find myself wondering why they ask race on American college applications. Doesn't that go against the concept of equal opportunities? -- Submitted By: (ExplodingConsole) on March 5, 2010, 6:57 pm - (3 votes)
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Racism is so wrong, it is what is wrong with society today!!!.......... Now lets admit these black kids to "fill up a quota". -_- -- Submitted By: (PYLrulz) on March 5, 2010, 3:28 pm - (2 votes)
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Racism is racism. Judging people by the color of their skin is wrong, and doing it to "even the playing field" or "correct past injustices" is wrong. Period. -- Submitted By: (BrewMaster) on March 5, 2010, 8:37 am - (3 votes)
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