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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"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."

Because I am no more an advocate of discrimination for advocating property rights than an advocate of drug legalization is an advocate of drug useage for advocating drug legalization.

"It's been repeated several times that private corporations don't get the right to what they please at the expense of society."

It isn't at the 'expense' of society.  If the corporation doesn't hire the best pick of workers regardless of race, that affects THEM.  It is at THEIR expense that they discriminate in the marketplace, not the expense of society.  This is the market's anti-discrimination function.  If black workers are that much more meritous than white workers who got hired in a discriminatory fashion, then the company gets punished by the market exactly as much as they discriminated.

"You have zero proof that "the market will take care of discrimination on it's own" -"

The market's anti-discriminatory mechanism is described above, and is logical.  Furthermore, whether or not the market can take care of discrimination on its own or not is redundant, since it isn't your property, and is thus not your say.