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Reverse Discrimination

 
 
ndjs
 
Reply Tue 27 Jun, 2006 06:55 pm
So what is everybody's thoughts on Reverse Discrimination?
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I noticed an article about a vote to stop affirmative action in Michigan, and also one about some white police officers being fired by a black superior, and both used the term reverse discrimination.

What is it? The term itself is nonsensical to me. Discrimination is discrimination. Discriminate against a white guy, black girl, brown child, whatever. Discrimination is discrimination imo.

Thoughts?
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jatuab
 
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Reply Tue 27 Jun, 2006 09:29 pm
@ndjs,
I think the term is appropriate if you look at it as "reversing discrimination". I agree that discrimination is discrimination regardless of who's doing the acting. Affirmative action is good when used appropriately, but its relevancy went out the window a while back. When it's the determining factor in a very tight points decision, or when quotas are used, then it becomes wrong in my book. I don't like going into any random government building and seeing all black women behind the counter, and I don't think veterans should get extra consideration when applying for those jobs either. I do believe that fields in which black people would be left out are better off for using affirmative action though.

We're not in the 1960s anymore, and all black people don't live in run-down projects.
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ndjs
 
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Reply Wed 28 Jun, 2006 12:02 am
@ndjs,
I think Bill Cosby put it best with the pound cake speech.
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jatuab
 
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Reply Wed 28 Jun, 2006 08:49 am
@ndjs,
"What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?"

haha
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ndjs
 
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Reply Wed 28 Jun, 2006 11:57 am
@ndjs,
Quote:
These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged: “The cops shouldn’t have shot him.” What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else. And I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said if you get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother." Not, "You’re going to get your butt kicked." No. "You’re going to embarrass your mother." "You’re going to embarrass your family."


w00t.

I love this picture of the speech. Look at Mr. Jackson in the background, haha.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images/billcosbypoundcake.jpg
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jatuab
 
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Reply Wed 28 Jun, 2006 04:53 pm
@ndjs,
I bet ol' Jesse was pissed.

Bill wears his sunglasses at night, because the sun never sets on being a bad***.
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Brent cv
 
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Reply Wed 28 Jun, 2006 09:33 pm
@ndjs,
that doesn't mean anything, Jesse Jackson always looks like that
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ndjs
 
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Reply Wed 28 Jun, 2006 09:48 pm
@ndjs,
This is true.
Life
 
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Reply Tue 4 Jul, 2006 06:09 pm
@ndjs,
Quote:
We're not in the 1960s anymore, and all black people don't live in run-down projects.



Just 99.5%
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jatuab
 
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Reply Tue 4 Jul, 2006 06:24 pm
@ndjs,
There's actually an increasing number of Middle Class black people nowadays.
Drnaline
 
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Reply Tue 4 Jul, 2006 09:41 pm
@jatuab,
jatuab;4144 wrote:
There's actually an increasing number of Middle Class black people nowadays.
Not where Life comes from, must be really bad there? 99.5 wow.
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