And a cradle to grave approach with affirmative action would help overcoming. I'm not against nurturing potential. I not against a fair an even playing field. What I'm against is unmerited discrimination, which happens when you put affirmative action into action with a bunch of biased people running the show. There are biases on both sides with white privilege and being x in America (fill in gay, trans, black, asian, a woman, whatever). Here's where the practical application fails:
1. People have not been treated equal
2. Overcome inequality with discrimination
3. pendulum swings the other way.
4. repeat
It's a never ending cycle and doesn't look like it's a fix but a perpetuation of discrimination. The best scores/qualifiers are based on abilities, potential, and knowledge. I just don't agree that the color of a person's skin or their life history (where it doesn't inform a related opinion) is worth anything more then me qualifying a person for their hair or the color of shirt they wore.
Possibly a side topic but, How can you support standardized testing, and not see a gap for equality there? If the underprivileged can prove they're underprivileged why not weight their test scores, or give them tests specific to their abilities? Because then the test isn't standard, and there is no equanimity.
If affirmative action was promoting (in action) better tests and better qualifiers I would agree with it a lot more, instead it just fuels the race debate. I just consider that it is not real problem solving but equivalent to feeding the trolls. I do want to see the better side of affirmative action. Please let me know why affirmative action in practice is more good than bad or point out where's I'm off in my reasoning and I'll try an open second approach.
1. People have not been treated equal
2. Overcome inequality with discrimination
3. pendulum swings the other way.
4. repeat
It's a never ending cycle and doesn't look like it's a fix but a perpetuation of discrimination. The best scores/qualifiers are based on abilities, potential, and knowledge. I just don't agree that the color of a person's skin or their life history (where it doesn't inform a related opinion) is worth anything more then me qualifying a person for their hair or the color of shirt they wore.
Possibly a side topic but, How can you support standardized testing, and not see a gap for equality there? If the underprivileged can prove they're underprivileged why not weight their test scores, or give them tests specific to their abilities? Because then the test isn't standard, and there is no equanimity.
If affirmative action was promoting (in action) better tests and better qualifiers I would agree with it a lot more, instead it just fuels the race debate. I just consider that it is not real problem solving but equivalent to feeding the trolls. I do want to see the better side of affirmative action. Please let me know why affirmative action in practice is more good than bad or point out where's I'm off in my reasoning and I'll try an open second approach.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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