Race based admission standards.

[Azraele]

Link

 

[Viper GTS]

Sweet! Let's hope it stands...

Viper GTS

 

[The Wildcard]

Word...

 

[Lord Evermore]

Affirmative action should have been abolished long ago in all areas of life. The individual merit of a person should determine everything about their life; if they just plain aren't up to snuff, they shouldn't be accepted. I certainly don't want an attorney defending me or bringing suit against someone for me if that attorney really wasn't QUITE as good as other candidates but happened to be a minority.

Maybe if you had two students, one white one black, who had identical test scores and grades and were essentially equal in their extracurricular activities and their characters were both about the same, THEN maybe you could say to use race to decide in the hopes of bringing in some diversity.

I also certainly don't want my local police, or the military, being selected based on race. I don't want the really AWESOME white guy that could have been the best on the police force becoming a campus cop while the not-quite-as-good guy that happened to be a minority becomes the cop responsible for patrolling my street.

I'd rather the GOOD doctor get the job at my local research hospital than the second rate doctor on the basis of race.

This could be applied to essentially anything in life. I don't want second best simply because someone wanted to force an artificial diversity on the country. I'd rather have high merit than diversity. I'd rather we find the cure for cancer and not be robbed or shot or lose a lawsuit than to be assured that our local {select one: police station, hospital, national guard post, college} have a {insert stereotypical ethnic item here} hanging on the wall or {insert ethnic non-Anglic holiday} posters and decorations be put everywhere.

No I'm not a bigot, I'm just a real dick and I can't stand stupid stuff like this.

 

[erub]

it has already been abolished in Texas, and all of the other states in our legal district. A district court overturned the rule of state-schools using it. For some reason the supreme court never took up the issue. Private schools, on the other hand, can do whatever they want as far as "diversity" goes, that's why they are private..

 

[Lord Evermore]

Well, they still can't discriminate based on race...

Simple: the law can say what you CANNOT do, but it shouldn't say what you HAVE to do. Laws should only be to prevent you harming others (not necessarily physical harm of course), but other than that, no law should interfere with how you run your life or your business. Even government funded programs should not force reverse-discrimination (which is what affirmative action is now).