It is also tearing our country apart. Affirmative Action causes whatever it is that binds US citizens together to break down. For whatever reason I no longer feel any bind to places such as Portland and San Francisco. Key West was heading in that direction last time I visited but was a blast and I want to keep it (for now).
I once worked in Newark for a black dentist whose father had been a dentist and one of my jobs was to bid on “minority medical supply contracts.” My disadvantaged boss made $30,000.00 dollars a month to run a couple of homeless shelters. The State of NJ and/or the Feds gave him the money. How much need or use did he have for Affirmative Action, I will never know. How much friction Affirmative Action has created and how it may have inhibited my success I will never know.
This is no way for freeborn men to conduct themselves. Shame on us, already. Are we too afraid of being called racists to put an end once and for all for government enforced racism, sexism, religionism, gayism, transgenderism, etc?
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Yes, we are too afraid of being called racist. We’re paralyzed by fear of that right now. Anybody who dares question the idea that America is fundamentally racist will be forced to apologize the next day. ON THEIR KNEES.
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The pathetic thing, Hypatia, is that so far, those who have been getting on their knees were not forced
As bad as Massachusetts is, and as much as I dislike Charlie Baker, our governor, he at least had the sense to bring in the National Guard. There has been some violence, but nothing compared to other places. Antifa and BLM only go where they know TPTB support them. What can I say? I am with Simon: I plan to stay far far away from Portland and San Francisco and Seattle, but I really don’t think most of the country is in much danger: these domestic terrorists are a bunch of pajama boys who won’t go anywhere unless they know that Daddy government will protect them. They tested the waters in Massachusetts, and decided it was too rough here for them: LOL, they are beneath contempt.
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Just wondering, Hyp: Who’re ‘we” – that are more afflicted by ‘paralysis’ than I am? If anyone’s on his/her knees, they better be begging God’s mercy, not the forgiveness of some red-faced, snarling, slathering, cowardly, privileged, bipedal, coastal animal. Amen.
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AA is also harmful to minority students. Author/scholar/professor Thomas Sowell sent his children to Ivy League schools and upon graduating, future employers refused to take their degrees seriously figuring they were bestowed upon them without merit.
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Thank you for pointing out one of the implied points in my OP. D’Ettes remain d’Best.
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Not only is so-called “affirmative action’ racist, it’s ‘ableist’, too. I speak from experience here; and agree wholeheartedly, Liz.
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One of the big fallacies in this world is that the college you choose to attend determines one’s fate. Many AA students are not prepared to attend Ivy league and the drop-out rate is staggering. They should have gotten a degree where they could have succeeded and perhaps moved on to a good career.
On the complete opposite side of the spectrum, look at Gates and Zuckerberg. They were college drop-outs!
I was a mere English major in college but went on to support myself in business. It’s really about the individual and always has been as you look at the most successful entrepreneurs in this country.
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Absolutely. I went to a couple different variants of “Midwest State University” that equipped me well for what I wanted to do – at the time. A community college might’ve served some of those “Ivy-bound” students just as well.
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Do not agree with the broad brush “racist” card. Peaceful social interactions between US citizens obviously entails much more that some superficial race baiting hatred.
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