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Old 17-03-2008, 01:14 PM in reply to gibbs_fan's post starting "Excellent post SEamer but if only..."
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Originally Posted by gibbs_fan View Post
Affirmative action is not discrimination and I find that many people misunderstand it. Let me explain. Our law states that if 2 "equally" qualified people apply for the same job, then the job should go to the previously disadvantaged person. Thus if the job requires an engineer, a white engineer will get the job if he comes up against a "non-white" laborer.
If a job required an engineer, and two first-time engineers went up for it, and one of them was white and had extremely good scores, and the other was black and had scores that weren't quite as good, would the black engineer get the job because he was disadvantaged previously? Because if this is the case, then it is discrimination and it is wrong.
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