Affirmative Action

Hi Raziel,

I would like to commend you for at least trying to keep an interesting post on topic.


Cultural Revolution another name for AA ?:

AA is terrifying .. pure and simple. At the extreme end, it didn't work in China, where teachers and doctors and any element of the intelligensia were mocked, stripped of their belongings and sent out to work in the paddyfields with their "comrade brothers" !

It certainly didn't improve China's economy, the peasants who so joyfully "denounced" anyone who had worked hard to get what they owned .. (usually because they were jealous of another persons efforts) .. certainly didn't benefit from the common collective (The idea that everyone should have an "Equal" share by taking from those who had more than they did !)

The NEW idea that the workhorse peasant was more valuable because he was able to do manual labour and very little else was proven to be wrong. Academics, poets, artists, scientists, doctors, educators, great thinkers .. were all scorned and debased terribly .. their wealth and assets stripped from them.

what happened ?

The whole country degraded further, and all because the "have nots" demanded equality with the "haves". Iin other words there was not enough to go around and taking away by force what people had earned the right to acquire by dint of hard work and intelligence dragged the entire country even further down into the dirt.

The answer, is most certainly NOT to artificially bump up grades or to dumb down levels, so more people can have a chance to acquire a virtually meaningless grade.

There HAS to be a system where excellence gains trhe merit it deserves, it should NOT be dependant on colour, creed or by knowing the right social set !

If the people with the higher qualifications are consistently passed by because they have the wrong skin colour be it BLACK, WHITE, RED OR YELLOW .. or whatever is the politically correct colour then God or Gods helps us all !