Quote:
Originally posted by DJ Happy
I'm a great believer in the saying, "If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for the rest of his life." This is what "positive discrimination" should model itself around. Give people opportunities to better themselves. Subsidise education, grant more scholarships, develop more training programs, maybe based on income levels rather than ethnicity. But once education has been completed and qualifications achieved, they're on their own. The goal should be that everyone enters the workplace on equal footing. If they've been given a subsidised education and they've just fucked around during it, then tough. If they've taken advantage of it and benefitted as they should have, then they will reap the rewards of their hard work.
"Affirmative action" can be beneficial if it not abused, but abusing it is just too easy at the moment. It's intentions are good, but it just doesn't work. I'm not sure that any official intervention will though, if the people who it is supposed to help don't stop relying on it as the sole means of their betterment. They have to realise that at some stage, they must take responsibility for their own destinies.
|
I agree.
If "Affirmative action"was based on something other than skin color, such as income level, it would be (imho) a good program, though too still easily abused. If we were able to "teach a man to fish" and then wean them off the program, it would be the ideal situation. I just don't see why skin color has anything to do with trying to educate the less fortunate...