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Jun 28 2018 10:19am
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jun 28 2018 06:45am)
"I was discriminated against in the past, so I now want someone else to be discriminated so that I can obtain a privilege which compensates for my discrimination in the past" is an ass backwards way of thinking, and highly divisive.


I agree, but I have never seen somebody say that, and I'm 99% sure you haven't either.
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Jun 28 2018 10:21am
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I agree, but I have never seen somebody say that, and I'm 99% sure you haven't either.


It is the basic premise of affirmative action.
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Jun 28 2018 10:21am
Quote (Scaly @ Jun 28 2018 10:21am)
It is the basic premise of affirmative action.


It's really not.
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Jun 28 2018 10:23am
Quote (Thor123422 @ 28 Jun 2018 16:21)
It's really not.


Kinda is though.
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Jun 28 2018 11:02am
Quote (Scaly @ Jun 28 2018 10:23am)
Kinda is though.


If it was it wouldn't have helped Whites get into top universities. (Spoiler: After racial quotas were ruled unconstitutional whites lost ground to Asians)
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Jun 28 2018 11:12am
Quote (Thor123422 @ 28 Jun 2018 17:02)
If it was it wouldn't have helped Whites get into top universities. (Spoiler: After racial quotas were ruled unconstitutional whites lost ground to Asians)


Just because it didn't work exactly as planned that doesn't negate the motivation.

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Jun 28 2018 11:28am
Quote (Black XistenZ @ Jun 28 2018 07:45am)
this.

a complete muslim ban would indeed be offensive and unconstitutional.
Trump's ban of a handful of terror-ridden countries in which the goverment isnt strong enough to provide sufficient vetting of their people in collaboration with American authorities, is not a "muslim ban".




It's all about emotions with both parties, not logic. One party says it's a ban on anyone with a Muslim background and labels it as such. The other party claims improper vetting will lead to 9/11 v2.0.

Extremes are everywhere. Most people want to play in the middle.
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Jun 28 2018 12:38pm
The irish were poorer than blacks back in the late 1800's. Now, the Irish are much richer than blacks because the irish didn't benefit from affirmative action. Racism against the irish was much worse as well. Affirmative action does a lot of damage.

And at the end of the day, affirmative action is the remnant of a dying line of thinking and we will be better off when we can abolish it.
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Jun 28 2018 12:39pm
Quote (EndlessSky @ Jun 28 2018 12:38pm)
The irish were poorer than blacks back in the late 1800's. Now, the Irish are much richer than blacks because the irish didn't benefit from affirmative action. Racism against the irish was much worse as well. Affirmative action does a lot of damage.

And at the end of the day, affirmative action is the remnant of a dying line of thinking and we will be better off when we can abolish it.


When did we enslave the Irish?
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Jun 28 2018 01:20pm
Quote (Thor123422 @ Jun 28 2018 02:39pm)
When did we enslave the Irish?


Blacks were free in the late 1800's :bonk:
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