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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: SilentZ who wrote (414710)9/6/2008 5:09:26 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1575422
 
Z, > So you think that if the government does nothing, the problem will go away? And why do you think that affirmative action does more harm than good?

Government can enforce equal opportunity and ensure that race doesn't play a factor in anything other than health and genetics.

Affirmative action does more harm than good because it:

a) Pits members of a given race against each other.

b) Rewards mediocrity in results and punishes achievement.

c) Gives a false sense of redemption to white people who think they've fulfilled their debt to minorities.

> Asking someone not to use a word like "uppity" because it's usually used to describe a black person negatively is not "silencing the opposition."

Try again. If "uppity" can be twisted into a racial slur, ANYTHING can. The opposition therefore is forced to choose words carefully, water down their arguments, or face being omitted from the debate.

Hence, the opposition is "silenced."

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