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Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Lean Left discusses the virtues of affirmative action:
If you are opposed to affirmative action, you must first tell me what you are going to replace it with. Because today, right now, if you are not white, you are going to have a harder time getting a job, a raise, or an interview because and only because you are not white. Tell me how you are going to deal with that, and only then will I pay attention to what you have to say about affirmative action.
Because affirmative action is the only program that has any concrete effect on overcoming that prevalent racism. If you are going to remove it without putting something in its place, then all you are doing is acquiescing to that racism. I do not consider that a valid option.
No matter what the study purports to show, one fact remains: two wrongs do not make a right. I don't care if your Asian, Hispanic, black, or white. If you are more qualified, and your references are better than the other candidates, you are my first choice for the job.
Racial blindness does not start with "leveling the playing field". It starts with acknowledging that the playing field is based upon qualifications, and credentials. Nothing more. In order to negate race as a consideration, we have to start somewhere. Affirmative action does not negate race. It fully acknowledges it as a factor, and allows it to be a full-fledged consideration. By doing so, racial hurdles will remain. Ending them will only come by... well, ending them. BOTH ways.Labels: Archives_2003
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Dave
11:56 AM
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