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 Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:20 pm
Just curious as to how many libertarians are for/against affirmative action...
I'm personally against it because I feel it's just another way to segregate people. That and, it's just not fair.
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Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:27 pm
i'm against it. everyone should have an equal chance at getting hired. they shouldn't be hired over someone more capable just because they are black and the company needs to "fill it's quota".
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Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:47 am
Affirmative action, in my opinion, was really meant as a temporary measure to insure that black people were given a fair chance. It should've expired after black equality became an accepted fact of life. It WAS needed AT THE TIME, but it is NOT needed anymore, and so it should be Ended.
)My opinion is the same for the Social Security program, but thats another matter.)
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Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 5:34 pm
true true true. it's an outdated law.
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Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2005 11:42 pm
America has a form of reverse-rascism. We care about skin color by announcing to the world we don't.
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Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:35 pm
LOLOLOL PERFECT WAY TO PUT IT! heart
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 7:01 pm
WobinA LOLOLOL PERFECT WAY TO PUT IT! heart HAHA thanks.
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Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2005 8:53 pm
against.. my opinion is why should the government have anything to do with hiring or university admissions..
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:30 pm
It no longer ensures protection. Too often it prevents those of other ethnicities (Asian, Caucasian, Native American) from enjoying the same oppurtunities. (I refer to the state laws that pertain to African Americans only.)
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Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:33 am
Against. As an individual, I feel that it is my right to be as biased, bigoted, sexist, and generally cantankerous as I want to be as long as I'm not stepping on anyone else's rights. If I'm a business owner, I should be allowed to say "no sir, I don't hire purple people eaters. I don't like your kind." As a private school, I should be able to say "we don't believe that women should be educated. Go away."
As a public school... and folks, I'd like to see them go away.... I should NOT be allowed to say "well, you're qualified but we need a purple people eater at this school, so... LOL OMG U R TEH REJECTORZ." I always found it incomprehensible that schools could apply discriminatory practices and receive rewards for it. Not only that, but schools can have racist or sexist organizations within the school! An example: a college I attend has a "Women's Center", which offers help and assistance for women. As a male, I could have used some help and assistance when I got there as a 25 year old, but I could not get it based on my sex. Why do I have to pay the same fees when I am denied the benefits that others get?
Affirmative action needs to go the way of the Passenger Pigeon.
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Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:21 am
Affirmitive action, the white man's way of saying that blacks are still inferior.
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:02 pm
In private business, I'm against it, and I would have been against it from the start, if I had the privilege of being alive to oppose it when it began. Forgive me if it seems drenched in capatalist principle, but if a business wants to discriminate, I say let them. They're the ones that will suffer from not hiring the most competent people for the job. If it's anywhere close to a free job market, there will be competitors that will hire those minorities turned down based on competence alone. Social darwinism will weed out the racist businesses naturally in this aspect. With affirmitive action, you keep the racist people in business by subsidizing their taxes or whatnot, and encourage non-racist businesses to incorporate racism vs. whites as another factor in addition to competence. In public institutions, whatever, I don't mind a quota or two there. I'm more interested in just abolishing most of them, so not a battle much worth fighting. Probably not as much of a problem since most civil servants take exams to get hired so as to avoid political discrimination. Jahoclave Affirmitive action, the white man's way of saying that blacks are still inferior. I'm not a minority, but seriously, it seems like affirmitive action is downright insulting if I were. I might be wrong though...
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Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 4:57 pm
Sinew Jahoclave Affirmitive action, the white man's way of saying that blacks are still inferior. I'm not a minority, but seriously, it seems like affirmitive action is downright insulting if I were. I might be wrong though... That's one of the things I've never quite understood. When you want to make programs available to everybody, or get rid of a program. They scream that you're being racist, even though the program was racist and demeaning in the first place. Hell, I'd go far out as to say that these programs have actually hindered the minorites by making them dependant, and making people like me dislike them simply because they are getting these programs paid for by my tax money.
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 6:13 pm
Jahoclave Sinew Jahoclave Affirmitive action, the white man's way of saying that blacks are still inferior. I'm not a minority, but seriously, it seems like affirmitive action is downright insulting if I were. I might be wrong though... That's one of the things I've never quite understood. When you want to make programs available to everybody, or get rid of a program. They scream that you're being racist, even though the program was racist and demeaning in the first place. Hell, I'd go far out as to say that these programs have actually hindered the minorites by making them dependant, and making people like me dislike them simply because they are getting these programs paid for by my tax money. Very true. No one seems to notice that affirmative action, a program designed to combat racism, is actually racist itself.
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Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 12:09 am
jackedup288 Jahoclave Sinew Jahoclave Affirmitive action, the white man's way of saying that blacks are still inferior. I'm not a minority, but seriously, it seems like affirmitive action is downright insulting if I were. I might be wrong though... That's one of the things I've never quite understood. When you want to make programs available to everybody, or get rid of a program. They scream that you're being racist, even though the program was racist and demeaning in the first place. Hell, I'd go far out as to say that these programs have actually hindered the minorites by making them dependant, and making people like me dislike them simply because they are getting these programs paid for by my tax money. Very true. No one seems to notice that affirmative action, a program designed to combat racism, is actually racist itself. Of course! Only a RACIST would think so! stare The only case where I wouldn't object to an affirmative action program is where you have two otherwise *identical* students competing for the very last slot - picking the one that's underrepresented serves as a fine tiebreaker, and I really don't give a damn about people who b***h and moan about how they got cheated out of last place by somebody else who was their equal.
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