Flip Buys skryf: “Affirmative action is couched in fine words – diversity, talent, merit, opportunity, tolerance, development. But when carried out, it is always punitive. In fact, affirmative action must be punitive. It requires the government to target one group for help because of its race or ethnicity. This means it must target all other groups for punishment. This is the logical flipside of affirmative action, but it is widely ignored. And so affirmative action leads to unintended, (but easy predictable) consequences. It increases group conflict, as resentment by the punished groups grows and the demands of the beneficiaries increase. It emphasizes group differences, rather than eliminating them. It discourages effort by the beneficiaries, who come to expect special privileges. And it destroys equality before the law”. - Don Caldwell in his book No more Martyrs Now
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:55:38 +0000
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