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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
Yay! Affirmative action is a mean-spirited and misdirected "policy". If those who never did the oppression/ownership/abuse are now affected negatively by rules trying to redirect our focus (not necessarily a bad thing) doesn't that create a new class of "victims"?
IOW, why should the (younger) white males in our society have to pay through the nose for what our (idiot) forbears did or did not do? We can only go from where we are, and I don't believe in victims except in cases much more isolated than get reported. LYA.
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I've debated affirmative action many times (I'm against it, for the record); both in real life and on internet forums. Some of the arguments I've seen people use to defend it are downright ridiculous.
My favorite part of these debates was the blatant hypocrisy displayed by some of my opponents. Many of the people who support this form of racial/gender discrimination are the sort that consider themselves "anti-racist". They are also the sort that tends to oppose "racial profiling" as a means to fight crime. I guess it never occurred to them that profiling is exactly how affirmative action works. All white males are presumed to be either oppressors or beneficiaries of oppression and all women and minorities are presumed to be directly or indirectly oppressed.