Once again, the idiots on the right, tie themselves into pretzels trying to pin the racism and xenophobia on others, all while promoting policies which deny blatant racist policies on some flimsy grounds.
Are you seriously suggesting that racial minorities are NOT being systematically discriminated against in hiring, or that the SAT's, or that "legacy enrolements" in universities isn't "Affirmative Action" for the idiot children of white alumni????
No, I don't think it's proper to use racism as an excuse for hiring or university enrolment. But as long as it continues to happen unabated, we need ways of reducing it's impact on society at large.
It seems to me that the the people howling about AA are exactly the people who would never get a job on a level playing field because they're not that smart and not good workers. I place Broker Loser in that category.
I wouldn't hire anyone that negative and lacking in self-esteem to poison my workplace. I want positive, forward thinking people who are focussed on moving ahead. Not people who blame all of their problems on others.
I take responsibility for my failures, and try to learn from them. Republicans blame black people, immigrants, non-Christians - "others". None of your problems can be laid at the feet of the old white men who have been running the country since it's founding, and who have a death grib on your legislative branch now, and are refusing to let go.
But then I was one of those people who spent a good part of my life hitting my head on the "glass ceiling", watching white males being hired off the streets, at substantially more money than I was being paid, to do a job I had applied for. Well you say, he was more qualified. Then why did they send him to me for "training" and tell him "She's the BEST"?
Every year, they patted me on the head and gave me an "outstanding achievement award", but the money and the promotions went to MEN, who were both less qualified, and less experienced than me.
