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Originally Posted by shakran
Yes. No.
affirmative action is a program in which employers are required to give preferential treatment to minorities and, to a lesser extent, women, in the hiring process. No it is absolutely not the best approach - in fact, it's an idiotic one because it makes race / gender an issue. It guarantees animosity between the races and sexes, and doesn't solve anything in the end.
They shouldn't be based on either one. They should be abolished.
No. There is nothing in the constitution that gives the government the right to force a business to hire a black woman.
Do you mean all individual minorities, as in 100% of black people, or do you mean all minorities as in blacks, asians, mexicans, etc?
Either way, the answer is obviously no.
By being hired when more qualified male applicants were not.
Absolutely not.
One which works to change attitudes. Going up to a KKK member and telling him "look bubba, you MUST hire this black man" will not suddenly make him embrace minorities. A good civil rights policy is one which educates people to the concept that race/gender/etc does not matter when judging a person. Affirmative Action goes against that concept by saying race DOES matter because we have to meet hiring quotas.
No.
Minorities are given preferential treatment when being considered for hire or as a student. That would be a pretty big benefit.
What does being black have to do with this statistic? It's the same for all races. More education = more likelihood of a better job.
End it.
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Are we to ignore the entrenched status quo of legacy entitlements that
impede a meritocracy in this country? Affirmative Action has it's deficiencies,
but instead of bashing it, why not offer ideas to help to level the playing
field for minorities, women, and the "have nots" who do not have access to
the connections and inherited wealth that contributed so obviously to, for
example, Bush's "success".