Affirmative Action, i had to Options

[onenonly101]

Should Affirmative Action be outlawed?

I want to hear what others say before I comment

[ComradeRed]

Well if you define working as "raising minority numbers", AA is definitely working. Similarly, if you define working as "killing the most Jews", the Holocaust was definitely working very well. But is the goal itself just -- and the answer is no.

A great and very important case study in affirmative action from real life:

I just got back from a college admissions seminar. During Q&A, a kid asks the speaker (who is black by the way) how affirmative action will help him, since he's half Puerto Rican. So the speaker asks the guy his name and where he's from. The guy says his name and says, "I'm from Greenwich, Connecticut." Greenwich is the second or third richest township in the United States. So the speaker spends the next several minutes explaining how it would be really sleazy and corrupt for him to take advantage of affirmative action, since affirmative action is designed to help poor minorities, like ones who are actually from Puerto Rico, or even poor whites who grew up in the inner city, but he kept arguing. After a while, I find myself compelled to lean over to the kid and say, "What he's trying to say is that you're a spoiled rich kid from Greenwich and should stop complaining." That shut him up pretty fast and moved the questioning along. The best part was when the speaker was nodding his head in agreement with me. Later, a person I was with told me that the Puerto Rican guy's dad was probably a multimillionaire drug lord. A bit racist, but we had a good laugh about it nonetheless, showing that affirmative action only creates more stereotypes, even if jokingly. A Hispanic kid from my school, also a millionaire, is abusing affirmative action in a similar way.

That is why I said you are corrupt -- you have regular Internet access, it sounds like you attend a fairly good school in Georgia, from what I gather you do not work on a plantation and you do not have to worry about whether there will be something to eat tonight. By all indications, you are not disadvantaged at all. By using affirmative action, you are being just as corrupt as the kid from Greenwich -- who is in the end only harming poor whites and Asians (many Asians are first-generation immigrants who came to the US with nothing, including myself) who probably grew up in much worse circumstances than yourself. Think about that for a while, instead of your grand ideological racial crusade of venegeance -- one comparable to and no better than the one Hitler launched against the Jews, who were taking up all the best jobs and positions of power in 1920s Germany.