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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
I would agree with most of the above, however, the fact that AA, or 'positive discrimination' (an oxymoron if ever I heard one) as it's called in the UK, is described as being necessary to compensate for the racism that exists worries me.
I don't for one second deny that racism exists - it surely does - but if all we do is pass laws to compensate for it, then all we are doing is exacerbating the problem and potentially disaffecting innocent people with good intentions in mind.
Racism (or any form of discrimination) is an evil that needs to be tackled at root cause, not legislated around to mitigate the symptoms of.
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I think that a case
can be made that AA does attack the root cause by decreasing the "strangeness" of associating with those who are not like us.