23rd January 2004, 10:17 PM
Quote:Discrimination is when you give one group an advantage over another that it shouldn't have. It isn't discrimination to give things to disadvantaged groups when those things will try to bring them to equality with the main group! It's the opposite of that... discrimination would be NOT having AA!
Not giving them an advantage is discrimination? Eh. Who is to decide who deserves what advantages? Who decides when blacks will finally be equal to whites?
Affirmative action should be totally economic, and have nothing to do with skin color. Since it is ONLY skin color, it is racial discrimination. Again, it doesn't matter how noble you mistakenly think it is. It's discrimination based on skin color.
Dictionary.com:
dis·crim·i·na·tion n.
Treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality or prejudice:
By that definition, Affirmative action is undoubtedly discrimination.
It's no different than how only minorities are victims of hate crimes, and how no minority is capable of being racist.
What I want to know is how long I, as a white male, have to be held accountable for the actions of others that share the same skin color as myself, most of said actions happening long before I was born and long before anyone in my family ever stepped foot on American soil?
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