What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majority?

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  1. Yevetha

    Yevetha Commodore

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    People of color will be the majority of America’s population by 2042.

    Will ift fade away by then or it will be aplied to white people?
     
  2. Amaris

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    Affirmative Action protects minorities. Should it happen that "white" people become a minority, then they will fall under the protection of Affirmative Action. I believe you will then find much less protesting, for some reason.

    As for "people of color", we're all people of color. Better yet, we're all people.
     
  3. Gov Kodos

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    Why is it even a question?
     
  4. Amaris

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    I just figured it was a "fuck it all let's eat jello pudding" kind of question and answered in that same vein. :D
     
  5. Gov Kodos

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    Oh, great, now I want pudding. Couple that with watching old UFO episodes and we got a fun evening since I'm free tomorrow. What kind should I go out for? I guess more chocolate than vanilla for the thread's sake.
     
  6. Amaris

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    Why not Chocolate Vanilla swirl? A kind of diversity in deliciousness?
     
  7. Gov Kodos

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    Sounds like a plan.

    [​IMG]
     
  8. Maurice

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    The OP proceeds from a false assumption or three.

    First of all, the topic title is wrong on many counts. Blacks—assuming you mean African Americans—won't be in the majority. "Whites" as a "race" will eventually be less than 50% of the population, but that doesn't make them a minority. To be a minority some other single "race" has to exceed them in numbers.

    Second, the trick with these statistics is that there are demographic differences between race and ethnicity. Latino is an ethnicity as far as the census goes, but not a race. Ergo, you can be white and latino, or black and latino, asian and latino, or mixed race and latino, etc.

    Finally, Affirmative Action programs were designed to combat systemic and institutional discrimination, something that would be unlikely to be applicable to any group that was the majority but falls out of being same, especially in a country that is increasingly mixed in terms of race and ethnicity.
     
  9. Squiggy

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    God dammit. Just stop it. You can't just post idiotic threads in here because you're afraid of bad words.
     
  10. SPOCKED

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    :guffaw:
     
  11. 1001001

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    Once "People of Color" take over, they will take away our guns. Then our Bibles.

    Our daughters will be next.

    Before we know it, we Honkeys will be hunted in the street for sport.

    GAME OVER, MAN! GAME OVER!
     
  12. { Emilia }

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    So when an ethnic group becomes the majority it can't be discriminated against anymore?

    Wow, I wonder how apartheid worked then.
     
  13. Awesome Possum

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    Maybe white people will be given a chance after all the disadvantages piled on them as they ran the entire world.
     
  14. thestrangequark

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    This may just be the stupidest thread I've ever read on the BBS. Is there an award for that? It's kind of an amazing feat given the history of this board.
     
  15. C.E. Evans

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    Quoted for truth.

    A professor once told me there was no such thing as a stupid question.

    Man, was he ever wrong.
     
  16. Squiggy

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    If they have a problem they should just go back to Europe.
     
  17. SeerSGB

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    "We can't all them there foriners done took all our jobs and lands.*"




    * - Is it sad or comedic that I have a neighbor that thinks that is why the first European colonist settled into America: To many foreigners in the European nations that ran out the "American Race"
     
  18. Alidar Jarok

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    I suppose everything that needs to be said has been said:

    Whites being a plurality is not the same thing as someone else being a majority.

    Overcoming hardships imposed by institutional racism is not the same thing as overcoming population deficiencies.

    Affirmative action exists because institutional racism led to severe disadvantages for groups. Other groups who have overcome these disadvantages are rarely the benefits of affirmative action. For example, Asian American populations are generally not given preferential treatment because they will likely be successful at getting into College solely on their academic performance (although I don't think academic performance should be the only factor in determining who would be beneficial to a University).

    On a side note, I do think it's somewhat of a problem that the majority of affirmative action programs seem devoted to the concept of a black/white racial divide. There are other groups in this country who have been victims of discrimination for an equally long time and are still suffering the consequences of these historic or ongoing events without usually benefiting from affirmative action or diversity programs. You rarely see efforts to increase the number of Native Americans in Universities, for example, even though the destructive nature of our past treatment has led to serious problems involving lack of opportunity on reservations. There is also a general indifference to overcoming the effects poverty have had on school systems that prevent many who are willing to work hard from ever achieving meaningful success (especially as the importance of higher education in the employment field rises).

    It's also worth noting that many affirmative action programs will likely be struck down next year when the Supreme Court hears the next case on this issue. They're not likely to say all of them are unconstitutional, but they will make it significantly more difficult to implement such a program.
     
  19. nightwind1

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    Why does a rightwingnut idiot from Romania or whereverthehell give a flying fuck about affirmative action in the US, anyway? Worry about your own country.
     
  20. nightwind1

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    Re: What happens to affirmative action when blacks will be the majorit

    It's Yevetha. I'm sure they will come up with stupider.