Time To Scrap Affirmative Action?

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  1. Taxcutter

    Taxcutter New Member

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    "...they dilute the meaning of the word racist to justify their racist views."

    Taxcutter says:
    That is precisely what the supporters of AA do. They assume that "racism" is a one-way street. Only whites can be truly racist in their views.

    Sorry, chump. You don't get to write the dictionary. Racism is a two-way street and AA fits the definition to a "T."
     
  2. Iriemon

    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Complete straw man. No one assumed racism is a "one-way" street or that only whites can be racist. That is not what AA supporters do at all.

    Sorry bigot. You don't get to invent new meanings of words to mask your own racist, hateful views.
     
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    frenchy fuqua New Member

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    Affirmative Action = Legal Racism

    “Judge a man by his character, not by his skin color”

    Mr. King must be rollin in his grave.
     
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    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Only if you re-define the word racism to water down its meaning into something it isn't. Racists do that all the time.
     
  5. Taxcutter

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    As long as AA is enforced using arbitrary quotas, it is arrant racism.
     
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    Iriemon Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Only if you re-define the word racism to water down its meaning into something it isn't. Racists do that all the time.
     
  7. Taxcutter

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    I use the definition from Webster's dictionary.
     
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    Surfer Joe Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    LMAO...Yeah, it's called the fiction cloud.
    You people are a hoot.
     
  9. bomac

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    Well, I missed "arrant racism" in it.

    : an active effort to improve the employment or educational opportunities of members of minority groups and women; also : a similar effort to promote the rights or progress of other disadvantaged persons"
     
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    Quotas used to favor one race over another is racism.
     
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    bomac New Member Past Donor

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    Some you want to dodge your comment on the definition of "Affirmative Action" and bring up another comment. Now can you prove your second comment or is that just your opinion?
     
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    When a quota is used to favor one race over another, what would it be if not racism?
     
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    Racism: a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination. hatred or intolerance of another race or other race

    Does a quota system (not really used today) fit those definitions? Was the quota system used to belittle a race? Was a quota system used out of hate or intolerance?
     
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    I don't think kids of alumini should get more SAT credit pts because of theie ethnicity.
     

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