[Life of an Ex-Teen] Affirmative Action - Affirm My A**

[WahMing]

Here's an interesting article - DNA tests open way to entitlement claims. It concerns affirmative action (the theoretical opposite of discrimination), where special rights and privileges are accorded to minority groups, to counter discrimination against them. I'm no American, and have no experience with this. I've also been chastised recently enough that I won't make any comparisons to Malaysian society. Instead, I'll just quote a few selected comments on said article.

• Somebody gets something free, somebody works for nothing.


• They want certain groups to be handed EVERYTHING and have the rest of us poor schmucks pay for it. And the sad part is that it will NEVER be enough...they'll get free college, free handouts, free houses, free food, free entertainment... where will it stop?
  
  As long as there is anyone in this world who has more than these whining crapweasels they'll not be happy. The sad part is people who are given everything will never know what it's like to actually EARN something. And without knowing that, without feeling that you've actually done something useful and worked for what you have, I don't see how they could ever be happy.


• It won't stop until they start seeing white guys applying for affirmative action, because a DNA test proves that they are part African American. But you do have a point. They won't be happy until everybody is carrying a six ton chip on their shoulder, demanding everything be handed to them.


• I appreciate the concept of AA. Laugh or guffaw all you like - how many people have had problems getting ANY job because of the color of their skin?
  
  It's a legitimate problem, like it or not. Implementation of AA is all kindsa f@cked, I'll be the first to admit, and this POS example presented is just another in a long list.


• I do appreciate the concept of AA, but like many things, it's well-intentioned concept that really doesn't have much in the way of practical application. People being the greedy fuckers they are always screw it up. People being narrow-minded bigots will always find ways around it. By-and-large, AA as a nationwide program doesn't seem to have done a fantastic job of leveling the playing field for the people I think it was originally formed to assist - people who are qualified but are overlooked purely because of their sex or ethnic background.

And my favourite:

• I have three words: this is bullshit.
  
  I am so bleeding sick of people being handed things because of the color of their skin, their sex, their ancestry, and most of all, their whining. I don't want to be given a job or money or a free ride (well, not to college *chuckles*) because I have tits. Nor do I want special treatment for that reason or because I have green eyes or blond hair or whatever other asinine reason I can invent. My mother's father was extremely poor and managed to raise a herd of children without getting one cent from the government, although he was eligible to do so. Does that mean I should be able to go extort cash from the government to make up for what he didn't take? Hell no! But if I went by the standards people are using now, technically I -should- be able to do just that.
  
  Reparations are a f***ing joke. Not one person in this country has suffered the horrible treatment of being a slave. Just because they have ancestors who did doesn't mean they deserve free cash, free jobs, free school, free *anything* to make up for what was done to their ancestors. That would be like taking a murderer and putting all of his/her children in jail to suffer for the father/mother's crimes. It's STUPID!
  
  Are people still, to this day, sometimes treated poorly because of their differences? Yep, and that's life. We all have to suffer it to some extent and a lot of people think they have it worse than everyone else. Get the hell over it. It's human nature, it sucks, and it makes you stronger in the long run. I was pushed into and locked in a frelling locker for five hours when I was in junior high because some kids didn't like me because I wasn't dumbasses like they were...I didn't sue the school, I didn't sue the kids' parents, and I'm not emotionally stunted for it. Shit happens. Deal with it and move on. That which doesn't kill you makes you stronger. And all those other clichés. Whichever one you choose, the quicker people realize that this world owes them nothing and no one deserves a free ride, the better off they'd all be. More importantly, maybe they'd become useful members of society instead of a bunch of whining bastards with their hands held out expecting the world to kiss their behinds because they have it 'rough'. As Dr. Dennis Leary once said (does anyone else remember that??), "shut the f**k up!".
  
  But, we have reaped this crap and now we're paying the price. Everyone has their damned hands out wanting everything given to them because WE (well, not me) have told them they deserve special treatment because of the blood that runs through their veins. Sometimes I think this world could use a good plague or two. It'd clean the gene pool out and the human race could start all over again. God knows a lot of the people today would never survive if they didn't have the government sticking spoons in their mouths and wiping their asses for them. At the rate we're going the next generation or two are going to be nothing but a bunch of useless whiners yelling "gimme gimme gimme" who think they should be able to live as kings and queens while they sit on their asses, eat junk food, and play video games. There's a lot to be said for survival of the fittest, IMO.

None of the above quotes were written by me, and I make no claim as to their veracity, so don't blast me if they're wrong. I'll reference them but they came from a mailing list I subscribe to, so thats impossible. In their support, all the writers were Americans, and there were no contradictory opinions whatsoever, somewhat unusual in this particularly vocal mailing list.

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Posted by WahMing to Life of an Ex-Teen at 6/03/2006 06:24:00 PM