tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759913671101666257.post3377764037673056620..comments2023-05-24T06:02:06.480-05:00Comments on Chuck's Chatter: The paradox of "affirmative action"Chuck Doswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03099345055614900157noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2759913671101666257.post-20651467199829968072009-02-15T02:28:00.000-06:002009-02-15T02:28:00.000-06:00What, then, do you tell the person who lost out on...What, then, do you tell the person who lost out on a promotion, scholarship or hiring, who had clearly superior experience and credentials and higher performance measurables, to a less-experienced candidate who was chosen to fill a race quota? What do you say? <BR/><BR/>"So what if you're better. Big deal...you lost. Bummer, dude. Try again next time?" Or the more intelligent but no less degrading, "We're sorry, your qualifications were exemplary; however, we hired Person X to fulfill an affirmative policy." Both are ways of pussyfooting around the truth, which would be, "<B>We didn't hire you because we're practicing inequity in the name of equality.</B>" Say what??? The grotesque double standard there should be obvious.<BR/><BR/>Solution: Cut out all this discriminatory crap and hire (fire) based on competency (incompetency). <BR/><BR/>The concept is brutally simple, straightforward and morally defensible by any rational mind. <BR/><BR/>Discrimination of the past doesn't justify discrimination of the present and future, any more than if, say, I went out and beat up a person of the same nationality as someone who assaulted my mom as a kid. simply because they're of the same race. Setting aside the fact that my example involves physical violence instead of economic, what's the difference, in concept? It's like the ever oscillating cycle of Isrealis and Palestinians but without the ceaseless bloodshed. "Your kind did something bad to my kind, so my kind needs to take it back." <BR/><BR/>Hello...can't anybody see the problem with this? <BR/><BR/>It's all wrong, wrong, wrong...a never-ending cycle of preference-based justifications, retaliation and resentment. It needs to stop. We need to start somewhere, sometime. Why not now? Let's start with ending all forms of so-called "affirmative action," and any other racially motivated codifications. <BR/><BR/>Racism (which goes every way) isn't going to stop. We can only hope to minimize it. But we can stop legalized forms of racial discrimination, including "affirmative action."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com