Affirmative Action Banned!

My state (Michigan) has wisely followed in the foosteps of California and banned racist/sexist affirmative action programs in Michigan, that would have discriminated against people based on nothing but their gender or the color of their skin, all in the name of promoting equality.  

It passed by a pretty wide margin 58% - 42% of the vote.. or, another way of looking at it: 

2,137,574  ---  YES on stopping AA
1,552,459  ---  NO on stopping AA

Hopefully this'll spread like wildfire throughout the rest of the states. 

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This has already been crusehd in debate 7 or 8 times.

If quota is set at 10% and of the 10 best applicants for a job, 2 are black, a racist employer may replace 1 non-white applicant with a white applicant of lower merit without facing criminal charges. Likewise if there were no black applicants in the top ten the employer would have to replace a white applicant with a non-white applicant of lower merit.

Affirmative action means quotas, which means declaring companies to be guilty without concrete proof and it does not cover instances where quotas are not met, unless you intend to ensure every company employs between 10 and 15% non-whites, no more, no less. As much as you think it is ok to discriminate against whites, affirmative action means that in some situations it is ok to discriminate against blacks, just so long as the racist fills the quota.

Affirmative action is not a part of civil rights, it is a policy and whatever it's positive benefits they can be coverred easily by increasing regulation over employment and government institutions using legitimate enforcement of civil rights judged by a court of law. You could of course increase regulation and implement affirmative action at the same time, however these would lead to contradiction in the cases where whites are replaced by blacks in order for quotas to be met. This is injust, but since you've already made your mind up and think discrimination against whites is ok there is no point in me advertising this flaw in affirmative action and I'll end this argument here.