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Affirmative Action in the US: is it still needed?

@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

Affirmative Action in the US: is it still needed?


I think affirmative action has never been needed in the first place. It's just another form of discrimination, period. If you want to raise up classes of people who have previously been discriminated against, enact progressive tax rates, make education cheaper for everyone, and support schools in low-income neighborhoods. That way you support all disadvantaged people without any favoritism towards any particular, formerly-disadvantaged group. The remedy for discrimination you don't like isn't discrimination you do like; it's to end discrimination altogether. In my view, that includes ending affirmative action.tsarstepan wrote:

NON-USers? Do you have or did your country ever have an equal governmental or institutional policy?


Germany does not have affirmative action. (Not yet, anyway. They're talking about quota for women on the boards of large German corporations.) Germany does have free college education for everyone who qualifies on their strength as a student. And all K-12 schools are paid out of the same piggy-bank within the state budget. This short-cuts the vicious cycle where poor neighborhoods have bad schools, graduates from bad schools have trouble getting into good colleges, non-poor people move to the richest neighborhood they can afford so their children get a good education, and housing segregation begets educational segregation and vice versa. In my view, the results argue for the German way and against the American way.

Source: http://able2know.org/topic/198576-1

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