Affirmative Action is a load of crap

RACISM! I can hear it now. No, I'm not being racist. Affirmative Action is racist, not me.


For those of you who don't know or are unsure what the term means, it is "A policy or program providing advantages for people of a minority group who are seen to have traditionally been discriminated against, with the aim of creating a more egalitarian society through preferential access to education, employment, health care, social welfare, etc." (egalitarian means "a person who believes in the equality of all people." Don't you love it when dictionaries define words with other words you don't know?)


Ignoring all the fluff and governmental propaganda dripping from the definition, AA is basically a rule that says you have to have a certain amount of minorities employed at your business, whether it be an office, factory, school, or clean-up crew (of course not every single business has this--how many Arabs do you see serving at authentic Mexican restaurants?). For example, for every forty-four presidents, there must be at least one black.


Sure, this seems like a great idea. Getting past racial barriers, breaking down walls, joining together, color doesn't matter, all that. And all of those are wonderful things. There's just one problem:


What if the employee sucks?


What if they can't, don't, or won't do their job well? You can't fire them, because that's racism (because we all know you're either egalitarian or racist; there's no in between). You can't turn down their application and hire a white guy instead. That's discriminatory.
So go ahead and hire the Kenyan woman, who doesn't understand poetry or the intricacies of the English language, as an English teacher. Anything else is simply racist.


People who do the job well should get the job. If the only people who can work a factory just happen to be white, big deal. It's not like any of that matters anyway. Performance is all that should matter. But, of course, it's not.