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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: puborectalis who wrote (32634)7/3/2008 9:45:03 AM
From: Geoff Altman  Read Replies (1) of 224750
 
Affirmative Action, like most well intended social programs that the liberals invent, was a feel good program that gave minorities selection advantages when it came to getting into college, obtaining Gov't loans for starting businesses etc.... and was IMO Constitutionally illegal.

Not only that but it signaled a departure from something that I consider as an American core value that the best person gets the job or promotion, or college entrance.....etc So now where these processes should be color blind AA has instilled race as part of the selection process...

Instead of creating AA, what should have been done was to enforce equal opportunity when it comes to college entrance and jobs selection. If that was enforced and where there might have been discrimination happening a few well placed law suites against businesses an colleges that were discriminating would have sent a clear constitutional message to businesses and colleges. Violate EO guidelines and you lose money through fines etc.... this clearly would have given the offenders an economic incentive not to discriminate. As ML King demonstrated, economic incentive a most powerful tool.

Also, one additional unintended consequence. It created two classes of degrees from the same school, same course load, same grades, the only difference is the color of the person earning the degree. In other words, employers don't see those 2 degreed persons as equal being that the selection process was lowered for one. So, in effect what AA did was set race relations back several years............

I'm still not finished.
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