Positive Discrimination

created by holloway

(idea) by holloway (7.8 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:25:24

When a person gets grants/advantages solely because of their race/gender/something. It's to redress the balance shown in data that "Woman don't succeed at school", "Black's don't get a high education". Whether it's right or not, obviously, is a matter of opinion (and whether you qualify)

If I wasn't such white trash I could apply for some grants. Although if offered money i'd probably turn it down. Sometimes it's called Reverse Racism, but it's just as evil. Only this does good! (ha..h

(idea) by pingouin (4.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:25:25

Put it in context. Postive Discrimination has the original. To whine about this is de rigueur, part of the FUD-fest that is modern politics. After all, my ancestors didn't own slaves, why should I owe someone "40 acres and a mule"? But we're all in this together, and discrimination worked like a nasty recursive function for eons, keeping parts of the populace economically fucked. You may have lost an Einstein, Hawking, or Knuth somewhere in the barrio or ghetto, or on the reservation.

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reverse racism	tokenism	40 acres and a mule	UCL Elitism
FUD	Masturbate-a-Thon	Angry White Male	Young BNP
discrimination	Community cohesion and area-based regeneration in England	recursive	Chicken Run
Knuth	Martin Luther King, Jr.	racist	QED
The Everything People Registry : United States : Pennsylvania	Affirmative action	The problem with military promotions	bumiputra
John Adams's 1799 State of the Union Address	good	Political correctness

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