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Originally Posted by Adak
I just don't believe you will ever eliminate discrimination, by enacting reverse discrimination.
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I think this is apparent at this point. Yet, someone correct me if I'm wrong, I thought affirmative action was just suppose to be a transition phase between outright discrimination and equality?
Outright discrimination and racism in the pre-60's led to institutionalized inequalitiy and, in general, blacks did not stand an chance against whites in gaining jobs for this reason once the civil rights act was passed. Therefore, affirmative action was suppose to help the current generation, at that time, while "equality" was supposed to help the next generation and affirmative action could be phased out.
It just so happened that inequality, which has roots in power, doesn't just disappear if we pass a law and we never got to the "point" where affirmative action could be phased not. Now it seems we are just in a racial limbo phase where we can't just stop affirmative action due to social inequalities but we know it is not an overall temporary solution.
This is also an issue that where personal stories are all over the place (very good and very bad) but it is hard to generalize the overall effect.