RE: Democracy, religion, women and equality. Justice demands affirmative action.
February 1, 2012 at 4:05 pm
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2012 at 4:18 pm by Greatest I am.)
(January 29, 2012 at 8:49 pm)Perhaps Wrote: I thought I provided a 'fix'?
Quote: instead of including demographics on applications for college or employment, only the necessary aspects of acceptance are included such as GPA, community service, etc..
Your tone in discussions is often angry. I don't say things to fight, I say them to promote the discussion.
Then, from you view, show how the affirmative action that ended segregation did not help the black community by showing the whites the right way to end the wholesale discrimination that was going on in that day.
Regards
DL
(January 31, 2012 at 2:45 pm)Stue Denim Wrote:(January 27, 2012 at 4:45 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: Democracy, religion, women and equality. Justice demands affirmative action.
Democracy, Religion and Secularism all talks a great line of freedom and equality for all. Our Western democracies and Religions preach this wonderful line; while at the same time forcing our women to walk behind our men and denying women true equality. True democracy and religions are then a sham. We have no working model, political or religious with true equality. We all contribute to this hypocrisy.
Does not follow.
On Affirmative action. I'm conflicted on it. On one hand any form of discrimination, especially state sanctioned, annoys me. On the other, do the people benefiting from it not encounter negative discrimination? Did their ancestors (which would affect their current situation)?
Does the affirmative action not just counterbalance the discrimination?
Is that not what law's job is?
A thief discriminates against those he will steal from and the law is there to counter ballance after the fact and warn/deter thieves not to steal.
I recognize that A A laws are disgusting and an insult to all who do not need them and shame all who must live under them but without them, the inequality that we presently have could stain our social fabric forever. We must look at them as diversity training for those who need it.
Regards
DL
