(December 19, 2018 at 12:48 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: All you're doing above is confirming that you don't know what affirmative action is, and that we are, in fact, in disagreement.
Affirmative action is favoring those who face prejudice or discrimination in an attempt at least partially to compensate for its real effect on the opportunities which they have in their pursuit of liberty, prosperity and happiness. Specifically, it's the practice of favoring them in schools or work places with that end in mind.
When white people say, "We're discriminated against because everyone keeps offering these positions to Asian students," then that's what they're talking about, and it's ridiculous.
I am, as you know, against affirmative action. But it's not because I dislike black people-- it's because an effective social contract, and the expectations that it holds for all participants, must extend those rights individually rather than differentially based on arbitrary group identities.
It seems to me that total homogeneity comes best from accurately assessing people's merits. For example-- it should be a rule that the average IQ of teachers in all schools in all school districts should be approximately the same, as should their university grades be. I'd like to see more federal power and less state power, such that police would be assigned anywhere in the country, rather than in the same town in which they've developed their world view and the prejudices that go along with it.
That's a big part of tolerance, actually-- breaking people out of their social entrenchments and putting them in situations where they have to adapt to various cultures and personalities.
/random rant
