Affirmative action is a racist program, a pacifier for the masses, a feel-good that doesn’t appear to do much except further blur the lines of stratification in the job market. At least, so it appears to me. It’s an affront to all intelligent and hard-working folks, as the barriers it removes are not those of race; rather, they are those of ability.
In the case of an institution for higher education, the barriers of raw intellect are broken down in order to give those who are not quite as gifted a chance to theoretically compete with their intellectual betters. This too I find wrong. Rewarding the less competent and shoving aside the more able seems pretty silly to me.
Do you have a point you wish to debate, or is this merely a self-gratifying wankfest? Because your OP contain several strawmen and assumptions that come out of a conservative’s political masturbatory fantasy.
Besides, what do you suggest as an alternative? That the poor and disadvantaged simply wait for the benevolence of the rich and powerful to give them a few breaks if and when they feel sympathetic enough?
Yeeesh. One more broad rant thrown into Great Debates with no context and no thought.
On those occasions when Affirmative Action is reduced to simple quotas (and on any occasion when the standards of acceptance are lowered to let less-than-qualified applicants into a job purely on the basis of race), then the garbled mess that is the OP stands a chance of having some validity.
On those occasions when the standards of admission are not lowered and the only Affirmative Action is an effort to seek out qualified applicants of any under-represented minority group (that is not limited to race) who would not normally have the opportunity to be aware of the position (or location if the subject is housing), then the OP is just so much mindless hatred.
No. You posted your feelings on AA, unsupported by facts.
(You may be able to eventually provide actual facts in regards to college admissions, but your rant is still unsubstantiated at this point and is too broad to be taken seriously regarding jobs and housing.)
so it is evident that you are only here to rant. You have also characterized all AA under a single description that is factually in error for several forms of AA. Therefore, since you are not here to debate (according to you) it would be a waste of time to bother continuing this. Logic? You are lacking a premise.