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hatman ([personal profile] hatman) wrote in [personal profile] jassanja 2009-12-02 11:59 pm (UTC)

Agree about people being too quick to call others racist, intolerant, and privileged. Especially have issues with "privileged," which I find to be nearsighted and hypocritical.

Agree that what happened with your job is awful and wrong, and wish you luck in getting justice and a good ending (whatever that may be).

Agree (if that's what you're saying) that affirmative action is, in most cases, a bad idea. You don't fix racism with legally mandated racism. Two wrongs don't make a right, and shoving government requirements onto a racist boss is only likely to create more resentment. And the numbers won't work out right if you bring in young minorities to counterbalance the older majority... as the older ones retire, the quotas will be all wrong. Not to mention that it makes minorities more easily dismissible as having gotten where they are because of affirmative action.

After getting into MIT, I was told by an admissions officer that I'd benefited from their affirmative action policy because whites are, proportionally, the most underrepresented racial group amongst the student body. For me, that undercut a major academic achievement. I'll never know for sure how much of being admitted was because I was actually qualified, and how much was because of the completely irrelevant fact of my race.

All that said... One Turkish guy screwing you over is not reason to make assumptions about all other Turkish people. You'll find a fair share of asses, ignorant jerks, etc etc in just about any group of humans.

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