Maggie's Farm

I cannot imagine the cognitive dissonance that a liberal must have to support affirmative action in the name of equality. Should the NBA and NFL support affirmative action because they are essentially "segregated"? Quota's for football players and basketball players. Should the government set up affirmative action for the nursing profession which is 95% female? Talk about a glass ceiling. How about a massive campaign to make the nursing profession not so sexist and allow only male students to attend nursing school. Far fetched you say! Well how about something t thenthenhe government has done in the name of fixing a sexist system: provide loans and grants for school only for men. That would go a long way to correct the inbalance in gender in colleges. What harm would it do to lower the test requirements for men to be admitted to nursing schools? After all we lower the physical requirements for women to become firemen or military. When I was a boy thinkingabout becoming a fireman the standard was that a fireman had to be able to life an unconcious 180 lb man onto his shoulder and step out a second story window and carry the man down the ladder. That made perfect sense to me. I assume male firefighters still have to meet that standard or something about as physically challenging. But imagine the thought process that demands "affirmative action" to put people into a job or a college in spite of their inability or in preference to a "level playing field". Let's call affirmative action what it is: bigotry, racism, discrimination based on race, gender or sexual preference. How does it help a black man who wants to be a doctor if you create a system where EVERYONE KNOWS he "probably" got through medical school because he was black? Do you want to have your bypass operation performed by a surgeon who couldn't get into medical school and couldn't pass it if he got in but because of his race or her gender they are now about to cut you open? How does someone fight against racism all their life and then come out in favor of affirmative action?

" it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race 300 years after another man, the first would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up"

So who is this 300 year old white man? This is going to suprise you but every black person alive today in the U.S. was never a slave, and every white person alive today was never a slave owner. If somehow you could penalize the actual slave owner and use this to reward the actual slave I would be in your camp. But that ship sailed a very long time ago. All you can do now is penalize someone who never did anything wrong to a black person and reward a black person who never was wronged by a white person. In other words all you can do to meet your objective is to discriminate against white people and give "free stuff" to black people.

This actually made more sense to most people in 1965, some believedit was actually possible to fix this with a "hand up". But here it is 50 years later and we have increased this racist program 1000% and there is no end in sight. It is the avowed goal of the neo-racist to commit this racist crime (often euphemistically called affirmative action) forever... FOREVER...

Ironically there really are real living humans who have been harmed, many seriously harmed by racism. They are mostly whites and mostly men. When do we begining the reparations for this 50 year serial crime? When do we begin 50 years of affirmative action for white males for the blatant discrimination committed against them by our government?