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Originally Posted by alansmithee
What I want to know is what people want to replace AA with? Everytime I see someone talk about eliminating it, I never see any suggestions to replace it. Seriously, white people, you won already. Alot of people died for equal rights, and in the '60's it seemed like victory was close, but it was an illusion and the whiteocracy is as well as it's ever been. Will people not be happy until blacks are back on plantations? Its not like AA has been that great of a boon as it is. But the fact that a black person might get something for their race outside of a traffic stop seems to send whites into a frenzy. I think if reparations were ever instituted, lynching would come back into fashion almost immediately after.
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Nobody is talking about putting black people back on plantations, so let's stop resorting to straw man arguments. In addition, the use of overbroad racial stereotypes, such as the use of the word "whites", which I
bolded, is totally inappropriate. You know very well that your statement is untrue.
What do I propose in place of Affirmative Action? Nothing. Admitting underqualified minority candidates to colleges and universities isn't helping anyone. Rich people are over-represented at colleges. Women are over-represented at colleges, etc. - this does not mean that we should continue imposing discriminatory programs until every school is precisely demographically representative of the nation as a whole. The entire concept of Affirmative Action is lunacy: the program has no clear goals, no way to tell if it has succeeded. There is no "termination point" at which we will know that affirmative action is no longer needed.
I am looking for a concession from those who support affirmative action: admit that the program is definitionally racially discriminatory. Even if you think that the good results justify the bad means, I want you to admit that, yes, Affirmative Action is a form of reverse racism.
I am also looking for a return to the original question I posed in this thread, which is related to a specific part of the affirmative action debate: diversity.