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. 

>>42

"That about covers it.

With that kind of circular (and fallacious) thinking, I can see why you'd think that.

"Stop Trolling"

Character attacks are an automatic fail.

"Affirmative action is where you declare people to be racist without conclusive evidence and force employers to discriminate against some group."

So... Affirmative action is wrong because the group that is discriminated against [u]in this instance[/u] is white? Of course Affirmative Action implies racism. Affirmative Action, as it applies to socio-economic racial disparities, is anti-racist anti-discriminatory policy.

White priveledge is a fact of life in America. One policy, a policy designed to give blacks an adavantage in a country where whites are the majority (and thus recieve the most advantages), only levels the playing field. The Japanese and Vietnamese were given advantages in the form of grants. No one said anything then because we bombed the shit out of their countries. Why all the fuss now? You would think 400 years of intense enslavement would be worse...but whatever you guys say...

"Civil rights are a set of anti-discrimination laws to be enforced through proper regulation and judicial procedure."

Affirmative action, in this instance, is an anti-discrimination policy.

>>45

I have Wikipedia too, you know...

"Affirmative action, as is clearly shown there according to wikipedia, is giving preferential treatment based on nothing but RACE on college admissions, government jobs, etc etc. It is absolutely based on race, NOT on merit. You fail."

Again, why do you assume that because it's based on race, that the person hired isn't meritable? Or equally meritable to a white person?