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Originally Posted by ThePits
If there is still "affirmative action" in place to put blacks in jobs over another ethnic group, as the blacks are in the majority, thats nothing more than good old fashioned racism
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i think that everyone is forgetting what affirmative action is, it is not to just go out and pick some dude off the street to be the president of a university, simply because they needed a black president vs a white one, its more like, they will hire a slightly less qualified (on paper, through say education or experience) black person over a supposedly more qualified (on paper, through say education or experience) white person to give the black person the chance to prove himself fair, and to compensate for the previous discrimination in education and the workplace which would have possibly explained his having less education and experience to begin with. At the end of the day, nobody ever hires the BEST qualified person for a job, they hire the best qualified of the people they LIKE for the job, and that is a big difference. After all, were you the best person for the job you have right now at the time? Wouldn't there ALWAYS be somebody better then you, unless somebody simply gives you the chance to prove that you can do the task just as well?
I think the people who so fiercely challenge affirmative action fail to understand that fairness is an ideal to begin with, and that it has never existed and will never exist, so to arrogantly believe that affirmative action challenges a fair world that does not exist is just plain silly, and it is a cop out to the real issues. Isn't better to look at the real world rather then ideals that we believe in? and wont we find solutions for these problems in the real world, and not in our intellectual imaginations?