| REVIEWER | RATING & REVIEW |
 | TeresaG (31)
03/27/2008 | I'm with Magellan on this one ~ I'm against both.
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 | numbah16tdhaha (165)
06/14/2005 | All I know is if I was anything but a while male I would have had scholarships. I am anything but a victim, however, so I served my country with the MARINES and now the GI bill pays my tuition. Piss on afirmative action, I say. As to racial profiling, screw that too, but watch the country of origin like a hawk.
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 | PlanetaryGear (54)
05/31/2005 | Racial profiling is a decoy designed to take our eyes off the real enemy. I mean, ME personally I've never been victimized in anyway by someone of Arabic descent (and I used to live in Dearborn), but I've seen Anglos do some horrific things to others. With regards to affirmative action, I think it is a necessary evil if you will, in that, as long as there is a minority population in this country(could be us whites some day!) there will always be a need for stopgap protective legislation until we've eliminated all prejudices......Good luck with that!
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 | Djahuti (57)
05/31/2005 | Simple- Affirmative action is there to give EVERYONE a shot at a job-even if the particular Employer happens to be a racist...Racial Profiling,on the other hand-is the pernicious singling out of a suspect by the color of his or her skin.Anyone with an I.Q. over 50 should be able to grasp this!
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 | CanadaSucks (51)
05/27/2005 | I hate A.A., but the idea that these things are in conflict is a mystery to me. Afirmitave Action is meant to insure employment opportunities- racial profiling is based on a supposition of guilt before innocence. . .don't see the conflict, sorry.
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 | magellan (178)
05/27/2005 | Interesting argument, but couldn't you make the same argument that it's difficult to justify being for Racial Profiling but against Affirmative Action? And there seems to be plenty of those folks. I guess I'm not really convinced it's the same issue - though for the record, I'm against both.
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 | Graymalkin (52)
05/27/2005 | This is a classic oxymoron, and one that the ACLU has yelled from their out of tune bandwagon for years. There is no plausible rationale vfern. Affirmative action is racial profiling! AA does promote the advancement of a less qualified individual over a more qualified one, whether in the workplace or the college acceptance boards, that is discrimination twofold. Has racial profiling been abused? When a particular group is singled out based solely on the color of their skin and not have taken into account other mitigating factors, then simply put, this is racism. Used wisely with discretion, by trained officers of the law and security personnel, it can be highly effective and sometimes necessary.
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 | James76255 (25)
05/27/2005 | In the end, you can't.
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 | helmut (16)
05/27/2005 | Jar-Jar, that's perhaps the most contradictory statement I've ever heard on RIA. AA promotes diversity regardless or qualifications, but promotes equality at the same time. Doesn't sound like equality to me. It sounds like favoritism. I work in a workplace where AA is practiced and all it does is put underqualified and unqualified people in positions they don't deserve and make people like me (who would otherwise have no problem whatsoever with these people) resent the fact that they get promoted above me because of their race. Don't try to tell me I'm being racist either. I'd feel the exact same way about anybody who got promoted above me unfairly, be they black, white, green, or polka-dotted.
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 | louiethe20th (79)
05/26/2005 | Well put Kate,good list, by the way, Randy.MLK saidI have a dream that one day my children will not be judged by the color of their skin,but by the content of their character.How contradictary would affirmative action,racial quotas and college preferences be then when applied to what King said?
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 | Jar-Jar Binks (17)
05/26/2005 | Affirmative action and racial profiling are two different issues. I support affirmative action because it promotes diversity in jobs and schools regardless of qualifications. ... Racial profiling has nothing to do with jobs or education. It has something to do with picking and choosing which race to victimize when it comes to crime. ... Affirmative action promotes equality, racial profiling does not.
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 | Randyman (116)
05/26/2005 | It can't really be justified in my book. if you want special privileges, expect it to be clear across the board. It's being selective and selfish to expect otherwise.
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