aerasio

Why Affirmative Action sucks

- Affirmative action highlights the differences of the historically-wronged groups we are talking about today (For example the blacks) as compared to the majority of the population.

- Let me use an analogy, suppose a white man and a black man both ask for a job. The white man has slightly better qualifications; however, because of affirmative action, the black man gets the job.

- Obviously, the white man won’t be too happy about this and will resent the black man for benefiting and getting the job just because of his race.

- Thus tension between the white men and black men is created because of affirmative action.

- E.g. in Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese majority suffered under British ruler ship as universities and government jobs required fluent English which few Sinhalese had as compared to the Tamils in Sri Lanka. Thus, when the British left and the Sinhalese took over the government. They imposed a system akin to affirmative action that among other things required Tamils to learn Sinhala (the Sinhalese language) or lose their jobs, and score higher marks to get into the same courses in university. These policies caused discontent among the Tamils and led to decades of oppression of the Tamils by the Sinhalese government, not to mention the creation of one of the earliest terrorist groups in the world.

- Thus we see that the goal of affirmative action, to achieve equality, is undermined because affirmative action causes the tension and discrimination which in turn creates historically-wronged groups in the first place.

So said Aerasio at 06:12