Comments on: The One Minute Case Against Affirmative Action http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/affirmative-action/ The One Minute Case is a new collaborative blog which will present a brief argument about a controversial issue that can be read in about a minute. The goal is to publish one case per day. You can read the cases to learn something new about an issue or use them as a source for longer arguments of your own. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:33:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Josh http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/affirmative-action/#comment-12639 Josh Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:36:55 +0000 http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/affirmative-action/#comment-12639 Great article. I am a student at Pitt and I can never understand what my teachers are saying. Affirmative action puts so many different ethnic groups in the office which is great for diversity but I need to understand what they are saying. I speak 2 languages which should make it easier, but some of their English is so bad there is no point to going to class. They can't get their lessons across and they often spell simple words wrong on the board. The bad thing is the teachers get tenure and then it is impossible to get rid of them or not cost effective. If we can't get rid of affirmative action lets at least test their English. One day we are going to be passed up by other countries because they hire the best while we try to be politically correct. Pick the best. That is the best way to go. Giving someone a job based on their ethnic race isn't much better than not giving them a job based on their ethnic race. Where is the pride in your abilities? When my wife was in HS she worked very hard while three African Americans she knew screwed around. All three of them got full rides to multiple colleges while she pays. Being raciest is possible against white people. Great article. I am a student at Pitt and I can never understand what my teachers are saying. Affirmative action puts so many different ethnic groups in the office which is great for diversity but I need to understand what they are saying. I speak 2 languages which should make it easier, but some of their English is so bad there is no point to going to class. They can’t get their lessons across and they often spell simple words wrong on the board. The bad thing is the teachers get tenure and then it is impossible to get rid of them or not cost effective. If we can’t get rid of affirmative action lets at least test their English. One day we are going to be passed up by other countries because they hire the best while we try to be politically correct. Pick the best. That is the best way to go. Giving someone a job based on their ethnic race isn’t much better than not giving them a job based on their ethnic race. Where is the pride in your abilities? When my wife was in HS she worked very hard while three African Americans she knew screwed around. All three of them got full rides to multiple colleges while she pays. Being raciest is possible against white people.

]]> By: D.J.R. http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/affirmative-action/#comment-93 D.J.R. Sat, 30 Jun 2007 19:34:05 +0000 http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/affirmative-action/#comment-93 So forcing an owner to hire someone based on "merit" is ok? :???: Isn't that how the supporters of affirmative action justify their actions in the first place, by saying that the fact that there isn't a statistically corralitve amount of a certain colored group in an area doesn't take up the same portion of jobs "merits" a member of that group for that job? There is no government solution to "the problem" of not hiring people based on merit, unless force is considered a solution. Saying that the problem with his article is that it misreprestents the essential nature of "affirmative action", which is in it's application based on racial quota systems, is to lead a reader to believe that an affirmative action program not based on race but merit would be ok. So forcing an owner to hire someone based on “merit” is ok? :???: Isn’t that how the supporters of affirmative action justify their actions in the first place, by saying that the fact that there isn’t a statistically corralitve amount of a certain colored group in an area doesn’t take up the same portion of jobs “merits” a member of that group for that job?

There is no government solution to “the problem” of not hiring people based on merit, unless force is considered a solution.

Saying that the problem with his article is that it misreprestents the essential nature of “affirmative action”, which is in it’s application based on racial quota systems, is to lead a reader to believe that an affirmative action program not based on race but merit would be ok.

]]> By: Richard Bramwell http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/affirmative-action/#comment-73 Richard Bramwell Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:40:06 +0000 http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/affirmative-action/#comment-73 "The underlying evil of all affirmative action programs is that individuals are categorized by their race." The above is an egregious error. The underlying evil is that individuals are not characterized by merit. The quoted statement above, which substantially reflect the integrations of the rest of the article, is invalid. It misrepresents the essential nature of affirmative action as being racism rather than an anti-conceptual approach to merit. “The underlying evil of all affirmative action programs is that individuals are categorized by their race.”

The above is an egregious error. The underlying evil is that individuals are not characterized by merit. The quoted statement above, which substantially reflect the integrations of the rest of the article, is invalid. It misrepresents the essential nature of affirmative action as being racism rather than an anti-conceptual approach to merit.

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