No, it's not. Affirmative action is initiatives to make sure everyone qualified gets a fair shake at the job because otherwise people who are using biases (intentional or not) like gender or race to incorrectly eliminate otherwise qualified candidates will continue to do so. Affirmative action attempts to correct an already embedded handicap against certain groups. It's levelling the ice, not tilting it.
Wrong. While the
goal of affirmative action is to level the ice, in reality all it's doing is tilting the ice in the opposite direction. Go look up med school acceptance rates by race and scores. Asians are for whatever reason expected to do better than everyone, and get completely shafted. Then white people, then Hispanics and then Black students. Asians need the highest scores to get accepted into med school while Black students need the lowest. If affirmative action promoted equality, the acceptance rates would be level across the board (or close to it).
It's the same bs we see where people complain that gay people now have rights, and you hear groups essentially say, "well what about my right to discriminate against gay people?!?"
No, it really isn't. Nobody is asking for the right to deny employment to people just because of their race or gender. Well, there are some, but they're ****** and shouldn't be taken seriously. I'd argue their only friends who think they aren't ******** are backwards hicks with the same views as them. The vast majority of people against affirmative action are normal people like you and I, who just want the right to hire whoever is the most qualified for the job regardless of race. It isn't even close to people wanting the right to discriminate against gay people.
Now the question is how far do we push equality. There are a few problems here. While in lines of work like being a firefighter, I think there is absolutely no excuse to hire someone who is less qualified just because they are a certain gender or race. However, when we're talking about say a warehouse job where you have to do manual labor, is it okay to hire primarily men because men are in general stronger than women? I can understand the problem with excluding women from that line of work, as women have to work somewhere and it's not their fault that in general they aren't as physically strong as men, but I can also understand the viewpoint of the employers wanting their employees to be as efficient as possible. However on the other hand, how often do you see hosts compared to hostesses, or waiters compared to waitresses when you head to Cactus Club, I don't see SJWs getting upset at these establishment for hiring women because customers would prefer to deal with them (and admittedly look at them) than men.
