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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
True......but still "disgraceful".
Hiring someone on basis of race, gender or whatever, instead of going for the best qualified, regardless of race gender or whatever, makes absolutely no sense.
Except to apologists.
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Agreed, there is absolutely no way to logically rationalize affirmative action in the age of equal rights movements. Affirmative action is an affront to equality in every direction.
To justify an artificial offering of opportunity to someone on the basis of a fact that you can not use to offer the opportunity outside of affirmative action is a painfully obvious contradiction of laws and counterproductive to a true equal opportunity effort in the long run.
For every offering of opportunity that is made on the basis of race, gender, etc. there is an act of discrimination committed. The problem is that too many idiots think discrimination can only occur when it is performed to refuse service and opportunity.
When you hand off a job or seat in a school to someone who performs poorly, is not adequately qualified for the reward, you are potentially taking away from someone else who is more deserving based on merit alone.
I'm sure most people can see how this is bassackwards.