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[quote="Old Reliable":5e3bb][quote="[muted]strvs":5e3bb]Thats stupid, the quality of a person shouldnt be judged by their gender or race. its just turning everything around, useless.[/quote:5e3bb]

TECHNICALLY, it shouldn't. However, whites continue to discriminate against miniorities and give preference to other whites, and vice versa for other races. To me, this is just a temporary fix to a permanent problem.[/quote:5e3bb]

one of the biggest places affirmative action shows up is in education. most colleges and universities are for affirmative action (at least in the u.s.) for one reason or another; and race is not a required field to fill in, but if you do mark that you're a minority you have a much better chance of getting accepted. because you don't have to give race, the "whites" could not discriminate against the minorites cause they'd have no idea what the race of the applicant. Thus affirmative action in the college environment is absurd...

oh wait i forgot... it's to make up for the discrimation the minorities got in previous education which prevented them from being good enough to make it into college, right?