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Topic "Affirmative action" was discussed 26,209 times on 1,711 sites in last 3 months
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-22 01:09:00)
by Wave Particle
This is a very interesting case to keep on the radar! If it eventually finds its way to the SCOTUS, we can just imagine the potential effect it would have on Universities admissions policies regarding preferential treatment and the quota of admitting minorities to their colleges. The difficulty, of course, would be proving a disparate impact on admissions tests. From the looks of it, Title ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-21 07:09:00)
by joeparkson
Besides the charge that Affirmative Action is a policy based on something other than objective standards and therefore a form of discrimination, the other commonly heard charge is that an unqualified person will be doing a job that could cost someone their life: Unqualified airline pilot, surgeon, firefighter, policeman etc. Please comment.
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-21 04:57:00)
by samjung23
I work in a lot of schools as a sub, and have grown up in white school districts. I notice that many white school districts don't even have ONE minority teacher working in them. This is god's honest truth. There is even one school that has a lot of black and Mexican students, in addition to a fair number of whites, but the faculty is all white. I tend to notice if white people control the ...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-21 02:49:00)
by IanC
An Academic Defense of Affirmative Action [Roger Clegg] That's what Insider Higher Ed treats us to today in an interview with James Sterba, professor of philosophy at Notre Dame and author of a new book, Affirmative Action for the Future. My posted comments: 1. Some kinds of affirmative action are uncontroversial, as a matter of law or policy, like taking positive steps to ensure...
Started 1 week, 1 day ago (2009-11-20 15:46:00)
by WhiteNat
Pro-white party: 1) dismantle affirmative action I have decided to take point by point of my platform for a theorical pro-white party and debate each one individually Sorrowly the original thread has become a mess of questions asked over and over again, because some people did not read the whole thread, so I think I better expose it point by point I. First, what is affirmative ...
Started 1 week, 4 days ago (2009-11-18 07:28:00)
by The Straight Story
Court hears arguments Mich. affirmative action ban LANSING, Mich. - Opponents of Michigan's ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring told a federal appeals court that the law strips minorities of their constitutional rights. Arguments began Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging the ban at Cincinnati's 6th U.S. Circuit Court of ...
Started 1 day, 6 hours ago (2009-11-28 01:17:00)
by WilD_CaT
I also think you are misunderstanding what I am trying to say. I totally agree with you the models or mathematical equations are not how we understand the economy. No model or equation can ever reflect the complexity of the market, the economic decision of billions of people. They are simply useful tools that can be used to help one understand a small number of variables and if they change...
Started 1 day, 20 hours ago (2009-11-27 11:01:00)
by IanC
both the Coleman Report and the Moynihan Report contained information and predictions that proved to be true in the following decades. both gentlemen were described as racist because of their studies and conclusions. will we ever move past being politically correct and start to focus on reality and root causes or will we just continually recycle P.C dogma that ends up hurting those it seeks to ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-21 18:25:00)
by teamosil
Quote: Originally Posted by WhiteNat what is wrong with white people being richer than blacks? most industrial and technological advancements in america were generated by white inventors so it is evident white people is going to be richer. I am sure asians are richer than blacks too You were claiming whites are ...
Started 1 week ago (2009-11-21 12:26:00)
by joeparkson
This is subtle racism coming from white people. It encourages the myth that whites are superior to other minorities, and therefore more qualified for the job. __________________________________________________ __________________ I don't know where you get this. Affirmative action is a policy based on race, gender, ethnicity rather than skills, talent, test scores. If anything, ...
