Originally posted by Steve
You wouldn't be repeating yourself Saburo, my challenges go unanswered by you because you do not have the answer without admitting that the bastard child of PC, affirmative action, is racist.
Some people might have been sucked in about how you don't dislike anyone here and you just disagre.. blah blah blah. That's all nice Saburo, but totally irrelevent to what we are talking about.
This discussion has nothing to do with how you and I feel about each other and neither of us has made this personal, I think.
I made points that show PC and affirmative action to be racist.
You counter my points by saying... oh wait... you didn't counter my points. I'll take that as admission of my position being correct.
You, Mietla, as well as others are correct in asserting that Afirmative Action is basically a Government sponsored program that uses racism as a gauge to implement quotas. I've never disputed that. Is it a racist policy? Sure is. Is it a necessary program to undo the more racist EXCLUSION of the past to even the playing field? Yup. Is it fair to those whites that have been denied positions to less qualified non-whites? No.
It was more unfair to totally exclude whole groups of people even if they were more qualified than the white males that were given the position instead. You bet.
Because the whole range of issues from schooling, housing, jobs, etc., were not fair to minorities, AA lowered the entrance bar to allow them in the game, so to speak. It affected a percentage of whites lower in the scoring (Although they scored higher than those minorities let in under the newer, lower scoring guidelines.
Those whites scoring in the middle to high end of the pack were usually not affected under AA. AA is the lesser evil of the bigger exclusionary policies of the past, nec for a time to level the playing field.
Sorry, but white history is usually whats taught in classrooms in schools. The moment black history becomes the norm in our schools, and when minorities rule big business, rule our govt., and rule our schools, then I'll be be willing to have white history month, etc.
AA tries to assure that no group gets left behind.
Although racism still exists, we've come a long way, we still have a ways to go, though.
