Affirmative Action Unnecessary?

Post the whole quote, because when AA was used in my office that person got NO respect. People walked past their office to go to someone's office who got their job based on their criteria alone.
How would you feel if you got a job instead of someone with more education, more experience, more training and a higher license? I would feel like a schmuck and decline the job.
The fact is that no one is kept out of college because they are black or female now, so the point is moot.
AA is harmful, only harmful, for all involved.
No, she was not racist, she just wants the best students to get the positions in the school. The kid that got the position had not even been involved in their school's theatre group and did not even have the GPA Yale required to get into their Theatre school (just the best minority applicant that year).
Again, since you did not read it the first time, it was GPA, clubs, student government and community service that I had been involved with. She begged me to wait a year (not something I was willing to do).
The other student had no extra-curricular activities.
White male students recently sued a major Texas school for doing this, they won, I am glad they did. Lowering standards should be illegal in all cases.

That is why someone who had half my GPA, with no community service or student government involvement received a scholarship to Yale instead of me? Level playing field?
Not even close.
You should have heard the disdain the woman (in admissions)had when she told me about it, something she was not supposed to do.
At my office if someone was promoted with less education, less experience and less training they received how much respect? I bet you can guess.
It harms the minorities it does not help them.
It furthers the idea that they cannot do it on their own.
The club that I was involved in in college that is, predominantly, about helping blacks in school and after they get out of school feels this way as well. Affirmative action is harmful and degrading.

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Originally Posted by rkzenrage

Post the whole quote, because when AA was used in my office that person got NO respect. People walked past their office to go to someone's office who got their job based on their criteria alone.
How would you feel if you got a job instead of someone with more education, more experience, more training and a higher license? I would feel like a schmuck and decline the job.

I didn't post that part because it didn't seems germane. I am a white male. When a male idiot douche bag was promoted instead of several other better qualified white male people, the others were pissed. AA has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

The fact is that no one is kept out of college because they are black or female now, so the point is moot.

Maybe they aren't kept out because of Affirmative Action and similar laws and policies.

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

AA is harmful, only harmful, for all involved.

That's your opinion.