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To: TimF who wrote (149341)	8/9/2002 12:45:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579860

Your whole post is just more about how discrimination still exists. It doesn't answer how unjustly discriminating in favor of one minority helps out another minority who has been the victim of unjust discrimination. You point out how height weight and looks effect hiring. Should we have affirmative action for short fat ugly people? How about people of a particular age or hair color? In areas where women or "people of color" are favored should we have affirmative action for white men? People will be biased but affirmative action is not a cure for it. It isn't effective as a cure, if anything it makes things worse. With affirmative action in place it actual becomes rational to discriminate against the favored groups. If someone with lower qualifications can get a job it is reasonable to think that they may actually be less capable at the job. If you make apply the same standards and make the same demands on every one then thinking a black women or an hispanic man is less capable would be irrational in most situations but its not irrational if affirmative action has been heavily applied. In any case affirmative action is a worse injustice then the bias that it is supposed to cure. It formal discrimination as a matter of policy, sometimes imposed by the government. Introducing it makes things less fair and just for the people involved, increases racial identification and resentment all around. Tim, my point was that even among whites, there is subtle discrimination. The discrimination is much more severe against minorities and women. Although discrimination can not be legislated away, A.A. levels the playing field so that the competition is fairer. And while white males complain a great deal about the law, they have rarely had its effects impede their progress whereas the law's benefits have helped to create a black and latino middle class, and allowed women to become more active in our day to day affairs. And who can measure the law's impact on aspects of our life......like the welfare rolls and getting those costs reduced. Say or think what you want but I think A.A. is a good thing. ted