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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Not Good

I have to say I disagree with the recent federal court ruling that struck down Michigan's affirmative action ban. Affirmative action was necessary in the past but honestly is no longer needed. Back when it was a good idea, the power of the state to enforce biased hiring practices was suspect. This is no longer the case.

If you sit and really think about it, having a ban on hiring practices based on race actually works to the favor of those who want more diversity. If a company decides to not hire someone because they are black, for example, the state can get up their ass with a tweezers for discrimination. In other words, you can't refuse to hire someone because they are black as well as hire them because they are black.

Supporters of affirmative action argue that it gives people of diversity more opportunities. I say that it's another way of avoiding the real problem which is our education system and, more importantly, our culture in general. We do indeed live in a society of entitlement largely pushed by the mass media as well as the symbolic interaction of our daily lives. Having affirmative action makes this worse and gives the true believers another reason to hate the government. We need less of those reasons.

Currently, California, Washington, Nebraska and Arizona have banned affirmative action. I think California's wording should be a model for how to move forward on this issue.

The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.

Now that's civil rights!

6 comments:

Juris Imprudent said...

You have to respect Ward Connerly, the man behind ending California's racial preference system. He had to endure a lot of abuse for being right.

Haplo9 said...

It never had to get more complicated than "you don't fix discrimination on the basis of skin color by discriminating on the basis of skin color" regardless of how deserving you may think the recipients are.

Anonymous said...

Really.

-just dave said...

Hell's freezing over...
Pigs are flying...
Cats & dogs are getting along...
Yes, it must be one of those rare days I agree with Mark.

Anonymous said...

Pity the left had to demand a full generation of legislated racism before any of you agreed to this.

Two cases: Casey Anthony, the jurors and the public were heartsick for letting her go, they felt sure she was guilty... but the prosecution failed to prove it.

OJ Simpson, the jurors and the public felt he was guilty, the jurors felt they could not convict him because the prosecution hadn't proven its case... but the political left and their black voting base celebrated, because they believed someone had murdered his wife and gotten off scot free because he was black.

Affirmative action was necessary in the past...

Yeah? Tell it to Nicole Simpson. Her corpse is the legacy of liberalism.

Haplo9 said...

>Affirmative action was necessary in the past

Yeah anon, I don't agree with it being necessary in the past. But this is Mark - if you were able to get him to explain why he thought it was necessary in the past but not necessary now, you'd just get a bunch of nonsense mumbling which would amount to "because I said so." In this case, the best you can get from him is that he's on the non-nonsense side of the issue now. FWIW.