Converation thread

It was built in the 70s, you think affirmative action was used for that?

Affirmative Action started in the 60s, under LBJ, so possibly. I did not mean to say that this bridge specifically was built with DEI labour, I just meant to say that we can expect MORE of these situations if we do not cut out the DEI cancer entirely.

Oh it is a cancer. It is racist and discriminatory against qualified workers and people of merit. It causes DEATHS.

That’s why I’m not an advocate for it in areas where lives are at risk.

Why would you advocate for it in any area? Are you not against discrimination and Racism?

It is meant to be a bandaid against institutional racism, since every single time, even when factoring in merit, non-white races are left behind in more cases than would match the rate of those groups in the area. It’s quiet, but noticeable. Affirmative action is a counterweight, but it does nothing to fix institutional racism, which is why I don’t favor it, but am fine with its existence.

Institutional racism is a myth. Minorities benefit from discrimination IN THEIR FAVOR while whites are discriminated AGAINST. If you want to stop racism, stop being racist. It's not rocket science.

Couldn’t agree more, discrimination is bad, but echoes of racism still reverberate throughout our system, ESPECIALLY the justice and educational system, which is why I target those areas most. The conviction rate is still much higher for black people, they are arrested without cause more often too. The near majority of people in prison are black, and while that merely means that black people commit more crimes, that does not penetrate to the heart of the issue. Black people have a higher crime rate because they’ve been more historically poor due to continuing and past discriminati…  Read moreon and economic inequality, which directly translates to more crime. The institutional racism is very much real, but it’s more glaring depending on where you look. States like California and New York try to use affirmative action as a lazy counterbalance, which is why I don’t favor it, I merely view it as a method of equalizing the scales. Hiring based off of merit for SOME areas is misguided in understanding of racial bias in systems, and is practically guaranteed to backfire.

The conviction rate for blacks is much higher because blacks commit more crimes of all sorts, use more drugs, and murder more people than whites. That is not something I said out of racial prejudice, that is just a statistical fact. Blacks are not poor because of discrimination, they are poor because Lyndon B. Johnson destroyed the black nuclear family with his Great Society Programmes, and because Welfare pays them more to work than get a job. They are languishing in these horrid conditions most of all, though, because of the toxic victim mentality force fed these poor people by the Radical…  Read more Left, the ideas that they cannot succeed with hard-work in this society, they only means of success left is Marxist protests and voting for Far-Left candidates. These people have been waiting a long time for their politicians to solve their problems, and they will be waiting for centuries more if something doesn't change fast. You can't trust politicians, who are corrupted by the Evils of political Power, to make life better for you. You must take the initiative yourself and work hard. That is Booker T. Washington, and S.B. Fuller, did, with wonderful results. Watch Candace Owens, she has a lot to say about it (she's black).