Affirmative Action has now ended in the United States.

    • Kill_joy
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      22 years ago

      If I only work out my right arm for 2 years straight and then suddenly say “oh I’m going to now start doing the same, equal work out on my left” they don’t just suddenly become the same. You’d have to put more time and focus into the left for it to become equal to the right.

      However if your honestly claiming that affirmative action = “doing the same thing again to a different race”, no analogy in the world is going to help you. Your ignorance is untreatable I’m afraid.

      • RandoCalrandian
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        22 years ago

        It’s the same level of understanding the solution as spez thinking editing the karma DB values makes him look good.

        If the fix didn’t start at the ground, then it wasn’t a fix

        We can’t solve the hiring/acceptance discrimination by forcing it, they first need to be at a competitive disadvantage by doing it, and then we target the discrimination that exists after that.

        With the way it is right now it’s encouraging the stereotypes of minorities being lesser/incompetent because it expects them to compete with people who received much better training and practice. It’s downright cruel to expect them to succeed in that situation.

    • iAmTheTot
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      12 years ago

      Let’s say you have two infinitely large pitchers, and an infinite amount of water to pour into them.

      Every day, you pour some water into the pitchers: one gallon into the left pitcher, and one ounce into the right pitcher. After doing this every day for over a hundred years, there’s quite a discrepancy in the amount of water in these pitchers.

      Then, one day, you decide you’re no longer going to pour different amounts. From now on, you’ll pour one gallon into each pitcher every day. Exactly equal and perfectly fair, right?

      Except, if your goal is to get the same amount of water into each pitcher, you’re never going to accomplish that this way. And then someone points out that the right pitcher is still a hundred years behind the left pitcher, and you reply with “well what do you want me to do about it? I’m pouring the same amount into both now.”

        • iAmTheTot
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          2 years ago

          This is just going to be a fundamental disagreement here bud. What you call racism, many people call justifiable restitution.