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| 08 Jul 2014 03:01 AM |
"Affirmative action" is discrimination. It is showing favourable treatment towards certain groups of people simply for the colour of their skin, while putting other groups of people at a disadvantage simply for the colour of their skin. For example, a white person with GPA 3.8 might be less likely to be accepted into a university than a black person with that same GPA. Why? Because the white person doesn't "add to the diversity" of that university, while the black person does. As you can see, the white person has been discriminated against on the basis of the colour of their skin, and therefore, is offered unfavourable treatment, while the black person is offered favourable treatment simply for the colour of their skin. It doesn't matter what each of them has achieved; if they "add to the diversity" of a school, they have a higher chance of getting into university than someone who doesn't "add to the diversity." Just because a race was disadvantaged before doesn't mean they should be given extra privilege now. Everyone should work equally hard to get something, they shouldn't be given favourable/disfavourable treatment on the basis of the colour of their skin. That is discrimination and racism.
dis·crim·i·na·tion /disˌkriməˈnāSHən/ noun 1. the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or s_x. "victims of racial discrimination" |
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jamkid12
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:56 AM |
Op forgot to put in white women benefit the most from affirmative action.
But that's none of my business....... |
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:57 AM |
get your mind out of the ghetto, jam..
♜ "Even a broken clock is right twice a day" |
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:58 AM |
| Hmmm. Well y'kno what! I agree with OP. This is a good cause. We need to put an end to this! (Though admittedly I'm only supporting OP because he has a white avatar. |
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:59 AM |
| Affirmative action should end for that reason, too. Women should not receive preferential treatment in receiving university places simply because they're women and have been oppressed by not being given the right to vote. |
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| 08 Jul 2014 09:02 AM |
"Affirmative action should end for that reason, too"
"too"
Then why not include it when you were making your op?
You just came out the door with people of colour on affirmative action when we don't even benefit from it as much as whites.
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| 08 Jul 2014 12:21 PM |
Oh one thread about favouring "whites" and not about the lgbt. |
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| 08 Jul 2014 01:57 PM |
| Let's also bring equality to the legal system. End unequal sentencing, bias against men, and a women's ability to convict someone based on little evidence. |
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| 08 Jul 2014 03:02 PM |
@Danny Affirmative discrimination does not favour whites. I'd just like this preferential treatment of minorities to stop. Sure, they might have been discriminated against. However, we no longer live in an era in which there is segregation and discrimination. We don't need to give people preferential treatment for education or anything - hard work and effort matters more than external skin colour or gender. |
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| 08 Jul 2014 04:03 PM |
"Affirmative discrimination does not favour whites."
Google who benefits from affirmative action the most.
Stop making threads about crap you don't know. |
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| 08 Jul 2014 05:58 PM |
| you've got to be kidding me |
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| 08 Jul 2014 07:22 PM |
@jamkid If affirmative action helped white women better than black men why did obama become president instead of hillary clinton? |
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| 08 Jul 2014 07:23 PM |
| OP earned an internet cookie |
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:06 PM |
@ssempre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVnfeHGwStg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJkf2JJN298&feature=player_embedded#at=60
So what your saying is they deserve to get into college for no reason other than skin color? |
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:32 PM |
@Fort LOL you don't know who Hilary Clinton is do you? |
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:39 PM |
| I thought she was a white woman am I wrong? |
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:41 PM |
| She wasn't elected because she can be immature at times. |
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:44 PM |
ok so just because she is a white woman... She should be picked? And just because Obama is a black male... he should be picked? |
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| 08 Jul 2014 08:44 PM |
getting it repealed is a pipe dream
any mention of it at all and the lolberal media will flip there crap and label everybody racis and sexis |
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