FrankDrebin
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What I'm referring to is the Federal govt. using race and sex as a factor in who progresses to the next stage of the hiring process.
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Even more powdery discussion: Affirmative Action.
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What I'm referring to is the Federal govt. using race and sex as a factor in who progresses to the next stage of the hiring process.
"pay a trip to Stormfront......"
Pay a trip? You couldn't PAY ME to take the trip. :barf:
Also, grades and scores are not the only things considered for college admission. Schools need to admit students to do things like play tuba in the marching band, do the lights and sound for the drama department productions, edit the school newspaper and all that other campus-life stuff. Not to say that unfair things don't happen, but the admissions committees have their hands full. Oh, and don't forget that the smaller non-scholarship sports need players too.
John
Pay a trip? You couldn't PAY ME to take the trip. :barf:
Also, grades and scores are not the only things considered for college admission. Schools need to admit students to do things like play tuba in the marching band, do the lights and sound for the drama department productions, edit the school newspaper and all that other campus-life stuff. Not to say that unfair things don't happen, but the admissions committees have their hands full. Oh, and don't forget that the smaller non-scholarship sports need players too.
John
I fully support equal opportunity, but Affirmative Action is nothing more than government-sanctioned discrimination. Affirmative Action acts to deprive one group today to "make up" for another group being deprived in the past. That is simply not right. Heck, international law even forbids collective punishment.
Over time, vigorous enforcement of equal opportunity would work. Unfortunately, we, as a society, are not patient enough to wait for the scales of equity to come back into balance. Instead, society puts the heavy thumb of affirmative action on one side of the scale to speed things along. The result is a statistically "equitable" result that is achieved through unfair means. This does not promote true equality, but cheapens the achievements of those who are unfairly advantaged and promotes resentment and hatred among those who are unfairly disadvantaged.
Of course, any discussion of equal opportunity or affirmative action is behind the times. Equal opportunity is blind to results and affirmative action is blind to anything but results. The currently favored term is diversity, which embodies the optimism of equal opportunity with the results-orientation, but not the negative connotations, of affirmative action.
Over time, vigorous enforcement of equal opportunity would work. Unfortunately, we, as a society, are not patient enough to wait for the scales of equity to come back into balance. Instead, society puts the heavy thumb of affirmative action on one side of the scale to speed things along. The result is a statistically "equitable" result that is achieved through unfair means. This does not promote true equality, but cheapens the achievements of those who are unfairly advantaged and promotes resentment and hatred among those who are unfairly disadvantaged.
Of course, any discussion of equal opportunity or affirmative action is behind the times. Equal opportunity is blind to results and affirmative action is blind to anything but results. The currently favored term is diversity, which embodies the optimism of equal opportunity with the results-orientation, but not the negative connotations, of affirmative action.