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gruzzy

Social climber
socal
Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 2, 2017 - 01:38pm PT
At least hes trying to remove the largest discriminatory policy this country has ever enacted!
With all the talk about not discriminating, why would you put certain classes of people above others? We are all the same humans.
Nick Danger

Ice climber
Arvada, CO
Aug 2, 2017 - 01:41pm PT
Rock on, Jeremy!
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
Aug 2, 2017 - 01:45pm PT
troll OP.

WyoRockMan

climber
Grizzlyville, WY
Aug 2, 2017 - 01:46pm PT
Everything before the word but is generally bulish1t.
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Aug 2, 2017 - 01:58pm PT
Affirmative action - as an Irishman I'm definitely for it.
Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Aug 2, 2017 - 02:03pm PT
Will this mean I'll finally get my share of free government cheese?
DanaB

climber
CT
Aug 2, 2017 - 02:12pm PT
largest discriminatory policy this country has ever enacted!

Oh, absolutely. Why didn't anyone else notice his?
Jon Beck

Trad climber
Oceanside
Aug 2, 2017 - 02:14pm PT
Norton

Social climber
Aug 2, 2017 - 02:17pm PT
Does this mean i will get my free Trump phone?
jbaker

Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
Aug 2, 2017 - 03:22pm PT
Definitely the largest discriminatory policy in history. Much worse than slavery, or indentured servitude, or internment camps, or mass incarceration.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 2, 2017 - 03:32pm PT
Did I miss something while I was up checking on the Bishop Illuminati?
Did he ban bolts and sportclimbing, finally?
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 2, 2017 - 03:38pm PT
Oh, that explains the hipster in the Prius doing 80 in the right hand lane earlier today. Thanks, braj!
Norton

Social climber
Aug 2, 2017 - 03:45pm PT
Definitely the largest discriminatory policy in history

yes, white people have been held down far too long

Affirmative Action is a joke, let's get back to the good old days when certain people knew their place in this country, I long for a return to Father Knows Best and Leave it to Beaver
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
Aug 2, 2017 - 03:56pm PT
Oh it all sounds so simple.
About 1987 UC was found to have a secret discriminatory practice of admitting Asians, because based on academic measures alone, Asians (about 11% of the population then) would have taken up about 80% of enrollment.
UC has gone through many iterations of Affirmative Action since then and one could say it's someone based on merit system now. Asians comprise about 14% of Ca population and about 40% of UC enrollment. Whites are about 49% of the population and comprise about 38% of enrollment. UC is mandated to take the top 6% of h.s. seniors. So based on merit alone a lot of white kids aren't cutting it. It's posited that if UC went strictly on academic measures only, Asians would comprise about 90% of enrollment. But, then there is football and basketball and swim teams that must be populated.

Yes we're all human. However the schools we go to and opportunities we get make a level playing field almost unheard of.

Then there are the Jared Kushners of the world whose Daddies just donate millions of dollars to chosen school to help the little boy with a sucky academic record.

Susan
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Aug 2, 2017 - 04:02pm PT
Prius have supplanted BMW as the biggest dicks on the road.

That would be Volvo owners who have been supplanted up here in the PNW - total dicks.
sween345

climber
back east
Aug 2, 2017 - 04:41pm PT
Yeah Volvo.

If you need a car that safe you shouldn't be driving!

Remember their commercials from the 70's with Rennes Jullienne(sp)?
blahblah

Gym climber
Boulder
Aug 2, 2017 - 04:44pm PT
UC has gone through many iterations of Affirmative Action since then and one could say it's someone based on merit system now. Asians comprise about 14% of Ca population and about 40% of UC enrollment. Whites are about 49% of the population and comprise about 38% of enrollment. UC is mandated to take the top 6% of h.s. seniors. So based on merit alone a lot of white kids aren't cutting it. It's posited that if UC went strictly on academic measures only, Asians would comprise about 90% of enrollment. But, then there is football and basketball and swim teams that must be populated.

If those are the numbers, those are the numbers.
My observations from attending my nephew's graduation from UCI a year or two ago:
At the graduation program for his "school" (if that's the right word) in biology, it seemed like it was something like 80% Asian (of different flavors), 18% white, 2% hispanic, and essentially 0% black. (Obviously, I'm making those numbers up--another way to say it would be overwhelming majority Asian with a significant minority of whites, a very few hispanics, and no or essentially no blacks).

It's not like I went there to take some sort of ethnic study, but the racial make-up was so different from what I see in my daily life in Colorado (Denver/Boulder) that it really stood out.

Part of the diversity of course was being in California, but what I saw wasn't very representative of the overall make-up of California. May have been somewhat representative of Orange County, I'm not sure.

Not saying any of this is good or bad, it was just interesting for me to see.

Hopefully, Trump will put an end to discriminating against Asians if that's what's happening, although from what I saw, they are, um, more than well represented at UCI at least.
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Aug 2, 2017 - 04:47pm PT
They don't call it the University of Chinese Immigrants for nothing.

Reilly, he finally kicked the Prius's out of the diamond lanes.

Excuse me, but the plural of Prius is Prii.
SC seagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
Aug 2, 2017 - 05:09pm PT
Blah blah. Your anecdotal observation is spot on.
UC Irvine has very high Asian enrollment because that school is heavy in the science and tech programs.

Susan
gruzzy

Social climber
socal
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2017 - 05:12pm PT
I am being an idealist. I am assuming that people will be hired based on skills/ability for obtaining employment, knowledge of world history to become president, non chronyism in other life realms....and inversely that they wont be denied anything based on sex, age, race, religion, etc.
To continually say we must make amends for past actions is simply not logical. How far are we going to go back? Maybe we should give Cally back to Mexico(at least there would be access to a universal health plan), should we compensate the great great great great great great great great great great granchildren of slain foreign soldiers fighting the US because they lost their lives? We can change the future but we are not touching the past.
I have never understood why anyone has to put a name, age, sex, or race on an application. Why would an employer need to know that? Maybe with automation and robotics AI can perform interviews.
Regardless of why you say affirmative action should exist, any special status to the few as opposed to the all is discriminatory. Damned if we do damned if we dont. Just opinions.
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