i need to know about affirmative action?
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It is a racist policy that enables someone to benefit off the color of their skin.\n2. It benefits minorities and women.\n3. We have lost fair hiring practices to it.\n4. It effects everyone because one day you could be passed over for a job simply because they have a quota of ethnicity to hire. It basically promotes racism and in equality. It is just another pathetic way to keep racism alive. People are not inferior based on the color of their skin or their sexual gender. Affirmative action reinforces centuries old beliefs that here in America, the white skin of the male is praised by all.
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Try starting with this website, or contact this agency directly:  The American Association for Affirmative Action
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The 14th Amend. protects your from govt discrimination - equal protection cluase (unless you are a white male trying to get into a public college)\n\nSeveral laws, most notably Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, make it illegal to discirminate agsint someone in a variety of contexts
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Not while the government institutions make distinctions between the races and give preferences based on racial differences.\n\nThis means affirmative action, quotas, set-asides, lowering of college entrance requirements, etc.\n\nEvery action of government that differentiates between races keeps racial divisions alive.
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Affirmative Action was originally set up to help minorities get into college, get jobs, etc.
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Affirmative action involves giving preferrential treatment to one group over another.  It isn't really any better than the Jim Crowe laws.\n\nThe irony is that people who believe in affirmative action, tend to do so on the basis of eliminating racial inequalities.  This is contradictory by nature.\n\nUnfortunately, racism and inequity will never be completely eliminated, by affirmative action or any other means.  You simply can not legislate away the opinions of others.\n\nIn the meantime, affirmative action gives fodder to those with racist agendas, and provides little if any benefit.  Not to mention that it necessarily means that qualified, deserving cantidates will miss opprotunities for employment and education based on their race.  Isn't this what we're trying to stop?
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Affirmative action has morphed and changed over the years. Initially, it entailed  organizations, corporations, institutions, universities, etc., taking steps to diversify, hiring/including/accepting more people of all races, genders, sexualities, and that sort of thing. (That is, attention was focused on making the environment more inclusive, instead of "overrun" with white men.) Over the years, controversy developed, because people began thinking that affirmative action was unjust because it gave preference to ethnic minorities, women, et al. Some places stopped the practice of affirmative action, while some have retained it, though in a different form. See the link below for a more comprehensive discussion.
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I imagine equal opportunities would play a big part so prepare for anything related to that, e.g how would you ensure people you deal with are treated equally and fairly? also try and include examples in the past of when you have tried to ensure equality regardless of race, religion sex etc....
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Affirmative action sucks!
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Affirmative action is beginning to give the minority groups an unfair advantage over non-minorities.  Perfect example: Employment,  most government agencies hire based on a points system.  The applicant with the most points gets the job.  Points are awarded based on interviews, exams, etc., but most employers automatically give minorities a few extra points just for being a minority.  When you look at it like this one can see that affirmative action is really nothing but racism, which is what it was meant to eliminate.
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Try Title TITLE VII(EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY ) of Civil rights act of 1964.\nat:\n\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/laws/majorlaw/civilr19.htm
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The way affirmative action is generally done is total crap.  The intent is to give underprivildeged kids a chance, but race is not a valid measure of priveldge.  Why should a rich black kid from a private school be admitted to a college simply because he is black?  Hasn't he had more opportunities than a white kid living on welfare?  College admissions and employers should take applications in the context of the socioeconomic background of the student, not his race.  Race-based affernative action is supposed to be an answer to racisism, but it effectively implies that people of racial minorities are somehow inherently inferior and should be held to lower standards.  Admission and empolyment decisions need to be entirely race-blind and take into account relevent socioeconomic details instead.
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Ugh.No I dont.Im a liberal, but on this thing I really really agree with you. \n Affirmative action only succeeds in further spreading the idea that racism is alive and well in this country by rewarding someone simply because of the color of their skin.
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No! We never should have had it . Affirmative action is fighting discrimination with discrimination.
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You don't seem racist, just intellectually curious. There's nothing wrong with that. Hopefully this will help with some of your questions. \n\nRacism is a product of institutional ownership. In other words, whites dominate in the most important areas of society. For example, the Federal Reserve Bank controls interest rates, the chairman is always been white. Our highest political offices in this country have typically been held by whites and the white cultural majority dominates mainstream television and other forms of media. Blacks and other minorities have gained considerable influence, but it's just one minority here or there. \n\nWhites have no reason to celebrate racial pride because they wrote the history books. There have been a lot great things contributed to this country by minorities, but we only talk about them for 28 days a year. An African-American would have to take a class specifically designed to educate them about there culture in order to learn about themselves. Whites have only to go to school. Ask a Native American if Christopher Columbus discovered America. They would probably tell you it was never lost. Only from the white, European perspective was this country a discovery. \n\nAs for affirmative action and similar innitatives I'd offer an analogy. I'll challenge you to a mile run. Now here are the conditions:  I get a three quarter-mile head start. With that kind of advantage do you even have a chance to win? Would you even want to race? I doubt it. I do agree that minorities have closed the gap in alot of ways. Maybe affirmative action is less needed at the present time. \n\nI can't refer back to what you've wrote, so I don't remember all of your points. I hope this little bit helps.
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To me, affirmative action means that a job is not given to the person who is best qualified for the position, but to someone non-white who fills certain specifications of a quota that companies have to fill.  I know that the policy is designed to give people of ethnic groups an equal chance in the work-place, but I don't believe it is fair.  I believe it discriminates as much as non-affirmative action.
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Affirmative action in school means taking two equally qualified candidates and choosing one over the other based on skin color or ethnicity.  \nThis has happened quite a lot throughout graduate schools and universities and has become the center of a lot of controversy. \n\nOne side says that acceptance into a school should be based solely from educational qualifications (this is what I believe in). \nThe other side says that minorities should have a slight advantage as a result of years of former bigotry or racism that have caused the minority to have a disadvantage.