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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>>35

So you advocate discrimination. I don't understand why you just don't SAY that instead of sugar-coating us with this "private property, individual rights" BS. It's been repeated several times that private corporations don't get the right to what they please at the expense of society. You have zero proof that "the market will take care of discrimination on it's own" - so I'm just trying to see exactly what you're basing your opinion on. Right now- it doesn't seem to be based on anything factual.

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"Race is just a set of genes who's differences are only seen in our top athletes or some aspects of medicine."

Huh? "Some aspects of medicine"? Are you saying blacks are naturally less intelligent when it comes to medicine?

"More extensive civil rights enforcement involving a government register of people and their skills and companies declaring what type of skills they are looking for so their choices can be reviewed."

So basically: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION.

"Quotas."

Did you not understand the question? "Quotas" isn't an adequate answer when I'm asking for empirical statistics and forms of tangiable proof. If you don't have it, you don't have it. Don't waste my time, otherwise. 

"If the quota is set at 5% this means a company which has 96 whites and 4 blacks working for them. They must replace one white worker with a black worker even if the white worker has more merit."

Which again brings up the question as to why you assume that if a black worker was a replaced with a white worker- that the black worker had less merit. Where have you seen proof of this happening? Or are your statements pure hypothetical bunk bullshit?

It bothers me when an unqualified person gets a job due to the irrelevant classification of race and not their actual ability to do the job. --- It bothers me when employers discriminate against people based on race instead of their actual ability to do the job. --- It bothers me when the government forces employers to discriminate against people based on race instead of their actual ability to do the job.

Ok, so....where's the beef? AA addresses all these concerns and effects the racial disparity in this country. Are you sure you fully understand what AA is?