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Originally Posted by redarrow
Not the people who belong to them, just the fact that they exist.
Why do they exist? Cant people just get over the fact that some people are better than others?
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Whether that was meant to be funny or not, I chuckled.
I haven't been here long but this discussion has been had several times and has taken several different forms. It all boils down to, fighting fire with fire.
Regardless of the circumstance, exclusionary privlidges do very little if anything at all towards evening the playing feild and they promote the solidification of nonexistent differences in people's minds.
But you have to bear in mind that these minorites, were and are still shortchanged by this society and these colleges are usually nothing more than people trying to right the wrongs of the past.
The poor should get what they need and the jobless should be given work but the idea behind affirmative action is to give people a shot in a place that they couldn't get to on their own. If you look at the neighborhoods of America, far too many of them are seperated by lines of race - lines so deep that they can maintain economic disadvantages for a long time...putting a person where they aren't wanted is a bad idea but I really don't see another way to tackle the issue. The gov't could create jobs in impoverished areas but that'd still do nothing for the lines of segregation in people's minds.
...there's more to say but I haven't had much sleep and I doubt anyone understands a word I'm saying....