Your thoughts on Affirmative Action

[Marvel]

White women are the biggest benefactors. Asians are discriminated against in AA. Most whites don't like hiring non-whites, including Asians and Blacks. With AA, they have to fulfill a quota of hiring blacks and hispanics, but not Asians.

 

[JT-Money]

Immigrants probably benefit the most from Affirmative Action now.

 

[Momentum]

There is no AA anymore. Several states cut it immediately upon Obama's re-election. But of course people dont mention this.

 

[Marvel]

There is no AA anymore. Several states cut it immediately upon Obama's re-election. But of course people dont mention this.

Yep, Texas and California the two largest states cut it a long time ago.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

white women have benefited from affirmative action more than any other minority group.

perhaps but theyre still under paid


its too bad Obama is a push over, we need a leader like Amin or Mugabe, that way we could slaughter all of the other races, especially whites, whites first, then we wouldnt need AA !

 

[Odyssey]

How does Affirmative Action affects your progress as an Asian? You want to know what the biggest impediment to your "progress" as an Asian? White Privilege. So yeah, let's talk about white privilege. Go to a CAC board and ask them how they feel about their white privilege and its impact on your abililty to "progress" as an Asian. If anything, Affirmative Action has helped your yellow ass but you ain't even know it.

I am rolling on the floor at this shyt.



East Asians test higher on standardized testing and have higher average incomes than whites.

White privilege is stopping Asians...

 

[Family Man]

I am rolling on the floor at this shyt.



East Asians test higher on standardized testing and have higher average incomes than whites.

White privilege is stopping Asians...

So does Africans and immigrants from the Caribbean. What's your point? Doesn't mean that white privilege isn't something that still has to be contended with. Do you know what white privilege is?

 

[duckbutta]

Most places did away with AA years ago...

And if you are not a white woman you probably didn't benefit...

From what I've seen in corporate america...AA is only really used to fill low level and administrative jobs...

There has been an upswing in minorities starting to gain more "powerful positions" ( power is all relative)

But that is because the corporate world is no longer domestic, it is global, and the white man does not seem to do as well in a global market

 

[Jello Biafra]

I'm curious to see how y'all all view AA. I'm Asian so obviously I am against it since it cuts into my ability to progress. I grew up without a dad in a shytty area, but it's funny how schools and employers didn't think I was underprivileged enough to diversify their companies. AA is all about numbers...

See I don't have a problem with AA because in a fantasy world devoid of racism/prejudice and inequality it would not be necessary but we don't live in that world.
What I do have a problem with is stupidity in understanding AA and how any loser who didn't get into their first choice school or didn't get a job or was passed over for a promotion automatically fall back to the tired excuse that it was because some under-qualified black person was handed a gift.
How about you accept that maybe you suck and that's why you lose out on things.

 

[HollowPoints2]

Affirmative action started and ended before I was 18 so I didn't benefit from it nor did I really ever understand it but somebody explained to me a little about how the system worked.

they said affirmative action placed un qualified black people and higher positions.

Basically reducing the standards.

If I'm getting open heart surgery or any type of serious medical treatment I want the best doctor not some halfway know it all who was given a false sense of entitlement.

 

[Odyssey]

So does Africans and immigrants from the Caribbean. What's your point? Doesn't mean that white privilege isn't something that still has to be contended with. Do you know what white privilege is?

White Privilege is a Marxist-Leninist social concept created by a Harvard professor. It is a progressive theory meant to cause social disorder and guilt whites into thinking they have no logical or rationale political or social interests. Like most social theory and public policy, it comes from the Puritan elite - it is simply a power move to obsfucate rationale political interest.

Do you know what White Privilege is?

 

[blackzeus]

good in theory, poor in practice.

/thread. The idea was to make sure race wasn't a deciding factor, and it's been turned into "if you don't pick me, you're racist" Let's be reality, whites find ways around this sh*t all the time, e.g. Chicago w/ sanitation contracts. I need to see the stats that AA has positively benefited black America, because having gone through the system I don't believe it, other than easier access to colleges in which poor students rack up a lifetime of debt. I've had teachers tell me to my face they didn't recommend me for honors classes, but the school had to allow it 'cause of my grades (this is when I moved to the 'burbs for high school). My AutoCAD teacher made me take the finals twice because he believed I cheated because I got the highest score (96%), and got a 95% the second time again , a Latino cat at that. For me, for AA to have a real effect, it shouldn't be about mandatory inclusion into majority white companies, I would think about something similar to what they did for the Indian tribes, designate certain types of business in majority black areas, and let the whole community eat off it, and reinvest a percentage of the profits into free education for the community. AA's are like 12% of the population overall, but in the places where we really need jobs, AAs are 25-35% of the population at a minimum, a good 90% of the people benefiting from AA would have gotten hired anyway to be honest IMHO. Using the Chi as an example, If AA was really based on population percentage I'd say all the businesses on the southside of Chicago would be about 60% black, but that's obviously not the case, not to mention most businesses in the black neighborhoods aren't Fortune 500 size, so they rarely get scrutinized.

 

[Family Man]

Affirmative action started and ended before I was 18 so I didn't benefit from it nor did I really ever understand it but somebody explained to me a little about how the system worked.

they said affirmative action placed un qualified black people and higher positions.

Basically reducing the standards.

If I'm getting open heart surgery or any type of serious medical treatment I want the best doctor not some halfway know it all who was given a false sense of entitlement.

That's CAC propaganda. Affirmative Action was put in place to make sure qualified minorities don't get passed over in favor of an unqualified CAC.

 

[Kabnis]

That's CAC propaganda. Affirmative Action was put in place to make sure qualified minorities don't get passed over in favor of an unqualified CAC.

Why does every AA thread though turn into a debate about white perspective vs. black perspective? If y'all were Asians, would you support AA?