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This is one of the biggest issues in the history of America. It tore apart the country once, and now it's tearing up GFY.
Bottom line, every ethnic group was discriminated against in America at some point. The pendulum needs to be released and to just plain point down. I'm going to hire the best person for the job. As long as they didn't go to Florida State.
Affirmative Action is worse than Communism. The basic tenets of Communism are "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." Affirmative Action says "From each according to his parents' money to each according to the lack of his parents' money." Affirmative action is just a funnel politically forcing resources from the most efficient free market equilibrium system to a less efficient system. Any economist could tell you that the delta between the most efficient system and the AA system is economic loss. That money comes out of our community's pocket - and the funniest part is that the profit there could be used to fund better education as a whole, or to use as the owners of those profits see fit. The irony is so ironic.
I'm a believer in Rand's objectivism. The point being that you should always strive to be the best and most efficient you can be. Tweaking the inputs to an efficient equilibrium system causes waste and a lesser product.
And that's the academic version. The reason that politicians don't agree with this is that they managed to get in to college with their parents' money and not because of their ability. They were also elected not because of their ability but because of their money. Strange how this one is gonna bite their kids in the ass.
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