Again, quit posing uninformed opinion -- they serve no purpose save to make you look, well, uninformed. Affirmative action has changed minority and underrepresentative employment levels by less than 1% across the board. Its biggest effect has been in university enrollment, not private-sector employment. It's harder for *everyone* to get a job, because people vote for morons who squander wealth and ruin the economy. And what "state/federal programs/grants" are you talking about? Last I checked, no federal or state-level government will give you a job as a "grant." That's probably the worst effect of affirmative action -- it's given white males who complain about not having any "unifying goal" as if it were anything other than their own fault a scapegoat for not getting the jobs they really didn't want anyway.
I'll deal with the rest of your "refutations" when you actually get defenses for them instead of stating them as universally accepted fact without any backup.
Funny you say that -- googling on the first 10 or so points seems to support that they're valid, even today. I didn't bother with the rest -- I'd rather hear exactly how you can back up your statement.
Oddly enough, while we're listening to *white* males whine, many of those same points can be made for racial minorities. Moral of the story: Look up numbers before you make a blanket statement based on them.
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Again, quit posing uninformed opinion -- they serve no purpose save to make you look, well, uninformed. Affirmative action has changed minority and underrepresentative employment levels by less than 1% across the board. Its biggest effect has been in university enrollment, not private-sector employment. It's harder for *everyone* to get a job, because people vote for morons who squander wealth and ruin the economy. And what "state/federal programs/grants" are you talking about? Last I checked, no federal or state-level government will give you a job as a "grant." That's probably the worst effect of affirmative action -- it's given white males who complain about not having any "unifying goal" as if it were anything other than their own fault a scapegoat for not getting the jobs they really didn't want anyway. I'll deal with the rest of your "refutations" when you actually get defenses for them instead of stating them as universally accepted fact without any backup.
Funny you say that -- googling on the first 10 or so points seems to support that they're valid, even today. I didn't bother with the rest -- I'd rather hear exactly how you can back up your statement. Oddly enough, while we're listening to *white* males whine, many of those same points can be made for racial minorities. Moral of the story: Look up numbers before you make a blanket statement based on them.