Is affirmative action Constitutional?
The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: "no state shall ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". Affirmative Action hiring quotas often only apply to females and minorities...and there are no quotas for whites or males. This means that minorities and women receive MORE protection under the laws than whites and men do. This violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Now before you resort to ad hominem attacks and shout "racist!", "sexist!" at me like a pack of ravenous wolves (my apologies if you weren't planning this), understand that I am not implying the only solution to this is to get rid of affirmative action altogether. What I am saying is that if affirmative action were truly about equality, it would include quotas and protections for white males as well. It would be inclusive towards everyone. If we are going to keep affirmative action alive, we should at least include whites and men in the picture. And don't reply "noone discriminates against whites or men". Yes they most certainly do. With the sort of "social justice" mentality alot of feminists and minorities have towards "The Man" nowadays, I would not be surprised if a female or minority employer discriminated against a white male as a means of "reparations." Besides that, true liberty and equality exists even where you would not expect it to be needed.
Condi rice is a product of affirmative action. no kidding?
Condi is a glorified grad student.
Question about becoming a Sheriff or State Trooper?
I was just trying to get some info on what you need to do to go about becoming either a State Trooper or a Sheriff in the state of Florida. and also if having a uncharactarized discharge from the military could prohibit becoming either one of the two. Thanks
Is America becoming more racist?
In 1960 a Rasmussen poll asked this question: Is it okay for a black person to marry a white person? This was asked of white folks only. A whopping four percent said yes.They asked the same question again in 2015. This time eighty-seven percent said yes. And indicators say the number is going up, not down.Racism isn’t systemic anymore. It has gotten down to the one on one level now.The sixties were a time of revolution. The Civil Rights Act and affirmative action went a long way toward leveling the playing field. My parents generation basically rebelled against everything my grandparents stood for. Thus I was handed a whole new world.Still, racism exists. Some old fogeys still harbor hatred and won’t let it go. And there are still some out there who don’t want racism to die, because if it does, there goes their paycheck. Think Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. If MLK’s vision becomes true, they become irrelevant.Racism is a fire. Fires burn with air and fuel. Hatred is the air, ignorance the fuel. Time to kill the fire.Like Morgan Freeman said, let it die. Quit talking about it. Address each other as men (and by proxy, women) and quit making race an issue.
What are the arguments in favor of affirmative action?
Typically the justifications for affirmative action are:i) To correct historical injusticeThe claim is that since members of Group A have been disadvantaged in the past, they are now further behind than they would otherwise be without said disadvantage. Affirmative action thus attempts to level the playing field.ii) To correct current injusticeThis is a variant of i) except that instead of correcting past injustice it is meant to correct for the present variety.Affirmative Action has an upfront effect of reducing statistical inequality (where if Group A makes up X% of the general population, if it makes up a percentage significantly less than X% of the sub-population or sample, inequality and injustice are said to be present). This is like giving money to the poor to make them less poor - it directly addresses the problem.There is also a knock-on effect, since success evinces path dependence. In other words, the successful continue to be successful and attain even greater success, while the unsuccessful are stuck in their mediocrity (this is like the poverty trap). So artificially boosting members of Group A is supposed to give them a helping hand, when they were put down in other contexts (either their ancestors being historically oppressed or they themselves in the past or at present). An example of the latter: blacks are supposed to face discrimination in the job market, so if a company makes an effort to hire blacks this counteracts the discrimination they face.However there're alleged broader benefits of affirmative action, like the bringing of "diversity" to a certain arena which is said to benefit everyone.Members of Group A who have benefited from Affirmative Action are supposed to become role-models for other members of the disadvantaged group.Affirmative Action is also supposed to combat negative stereotypes of Group A (e.g. "Are there so few doctors from Group A because people from Group A are lazy?") and raise their visibility in the public eye (e.g. "I can conceive of a doctor from Group A. So when I interview a candidate for Med School from Group A I will not be unfairly biased against him").
Should I identify as a "Protected Veteran" on a job application? Will it be held against me?
I have no idea what a “protected veteran” is. You do have the right to a non-discriminatory hiring process that doesn’t hold your veteran status against you, and you may have a few points of advantage when applying for a Federal government job, but that’s about as far as it goes.As far as identifying yourself as a veteran on those EEO forms that employers have you fill out, it probably doesn’t make any difference. Your employment history on your resume is already going to show that you served. A lot of companies like to hire veterans because they know that they have developed a sense of “mission”. a strong work ethic, and have developed a certain amount of respect for following their chain of command. I’ve hired lots of people over my career, and some of the very best people I’ve hired have been veterans. I’ll take a vet over an entitled snowflake any day.