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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
AA isn't supposed to be "hire on the basis of gender/race/etc." It's supposed to be, "among qualified candidates--choose one of a nonprivileged category."
When supermarkets hire stock clerks, they don't look for "the most qualified candidates." There are no "most qualified" candidates. There are qualified candidates, and utterly incompetent candidates, and otherwise qualified candidates who will steal from them. They don't want to hire group B or C candidates... but among the (often very large) pool of group A candidates, affirmative action says they should hire the ones who started out at a disadvantage.
This is important to establish as a rule, because without some kind of outside nudge, people like others who are like themselves. They like *similar* people. Employers will hire to match the race, gender, nationalit and cultural background of the current management without thinking about it, because they "felt more comfortable" with those candidates. Oppression sustains itself without any overt bigotry at all; Affirmative Action is an attempt to correct that.
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Assuming that because someone's race is not white that they are at a disadvantage is bigotry. Hands down. And just because you have good intentions behind that bigotry does not change that it's still bigotry.
The problems of discrimination are real, they still happen, and I know the ATTEMPT is to fight that through these affirmative action laws but in reality, it will never solve the real problem. It only goes on to show how exceptions to the rules of equality can be made at the convenience of those who wish for it. It is the same stupid self-promoting failure as telling a lie to explain a lie.
It would make far more sense to establish non-discriminatory standardized selection methodologies for at-risk scenarios than to specifically demand a percentage of selections be made from minority or risk groups. But that would be "hard" and it would be confusing to both the politicians and their constituents that they are trying to keep by passing such idiotic, unsuccessful laws in the first place.
One of the problems with voting for representation is that the voters are not qualified to make the decision and the candidates are motivated to get votes not to be a good candidate.
Striving for fair treatment is noble and justifiable but to use the same tactics you are fighting against in that effort is utterly lacking in integrity, unfortunately.