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[quote=Anonymous] :roll:[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's got to the point that people are strategizing how to win the admissions game by selecting or not selecting certain races. When it gets to this point, you know there is something wrong with the policy. [/quote]

NP (I think) and I agree. Things are ridiculous at this point.[b] And it's going to HURT the people that these policies are trying to help. People are going to start thinking that people of certain races only got entrance to certain colleges because of their race. [/b]That's unfair for the people of those races who would have achieved entry based on merit and hard work without "playing the race card".[/quote]

How do you legislate against racism and bias in employment? Even today, despite affirmative action, you see the studies where someone with a name associated as African-American does not get an interview while someone with a more generic name with an identical resume gets a call back. You also don’t see a very diverse executive management at most companies.  So if this is what things look like with affirmative action, what would it look like without?  Where people say it’s not what you know, it’s who you know, how does this help minorities have an equal footing?

But I guess if you are worried about people thinking it’s an unfair advantage and all, we should ban employee referrals and nepotism because it could hurt the very people it’s trying to help.  I’m sure certain political people must have cried themselves to sleep every night thinking someone might think they were unqualified for their job because they got it thru connections.   :roll:   I know, better yet, when someone new starts the job, whether they are a minority or a woman or an employee referral or someone off the street, let’s assume they can do the job unless proven otherwise aka the benefit of the doubt the non-minority is given.[/quote]

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