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Originally Posted by raveneye
1. It promotes racism and sexism, and thereby is an obstacle in developing a more race- and gender- blind society.
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AA doesn't promote racism/sexism, it punishes it. It says because there is race/sexism, the group it's targeted against gets bonuses to compensate for the innate bonus that the majority has. Instead of getting mad at the solution, why not get mad at the problem? If there was no racism, there is not needed AA. Same for sexism.[/quote]
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2. There are many other forms of recourse. There is no convincing evidence that AA as currently implemented has been more effective in "leveling the playing field" than any of these other forms of recourse.
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I have yet to see any reasonable alternate that didn't boil down to "hide our heads in the sand and ignore the problem". If you have seen one, i would be very interested in seeing it.
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3. It puts detailed information about the "race" of large numbers of people into the hands of the government. I don't know about you, but I don't trust the government with that information. Especially this government.
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The government probably knows things about people they don't even know about themselves. Race is generally something you can know just by looking at someone, I don't see how it's this big state secret.