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36. Anyone who opposes affirmative action on the grounds

Fri Jun 30, 2023, 12:45 AM

Jun 2023

that race should not be consiered is woefully ignorant.

Race is ALWAYS considered. That's how, without affirmative action, so many B-list and C-list white people get into colleges and, later, jobs that A-list minorities are not allowed to have.

That was true in the 1950's, and the 60's, and the 70's, and the 80's, and the 90's. It was true thoughout the 00's and the 10's and is still true today, and it is about to get worse. Much worse.

I have a suspicion that what "an affirmative action hire" really means - even if the hiring official doesn't realize it - is "We needed someone seriously competent, and the white gene pool wasn't big enough." I say that as a white person wo has seen tremendous waste of human talent in my 77 years.

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