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RE: Are you jealous?

Exactly - the problem is that governments come up with an idea to fix a problem - "affirmative action" and when you first look at you say - that makes sense. It came about because racists were hiring dumbass idiots who could not pass a single university (or high school) class over a black woman with a Ph.D. in the field. Just like Trump and his dad who didn't rent to black people. Caught on tape - black family goes in to rent a flat and told they were all full. A white couple then goes in and sure you can sign up - we have X number to choose from.

So because of the blatant racism in hiring practices and rentals, they came up with Affirmative Action forcing the racists to hire black people.

The problem of course then is that the black woman with the Ph.D. who is rightfully hired - is subject to the old "she was only hired because she is black"

And in some cases it is actually true - the company may not be able to hire a qualified person so they have to hire an unqualified person to meet a quota. The solution solves 1 problem and creates two others.

That's why I want qualified intelligent people working in governments, not decisions based on the political wind at the time or what will get someone re-elected. Affirmative-Action is not a total train-wreck of an idea - it's just handled so piss-poor that it angers as many people as it satisfies. The fix is transparency.

So you get 10 applicants for an accountant position - 5 of them are CPAs with 10 years experience and 5 are lunkheads and family and friends.

These latter 5 should be dropped from consideration - if they are all women or black or whatever so be it they are dropped - if the remaining 5 are white men in their 50s so be it - they get the job. The ten applications are kept and stored on a file and sent to a watchdog agency and checked. The agency determines that the selection was reasonable and based on merit. Take 1% of the military budget and find it - and it would fund the rent thing as well and probably 8 other similar programs.

This is what I hated about Biden. He stands up and says "I'm choosing a female VP" - and it comes across as PC bullsquirt. WHY would you SAY that? Right away you are saying you are choosing someone based on sex. The very damn things Liberals (well he's not really) are against.

He is saying the choice isn't a meritocracy and he's choosing a woman. I get it in the sense that he wants female representation but it makes Harris look as she was only chosen for her sex. It diminishes her. My Prime Minister did the same PC SJW thing.

Trudeau, in his defense, did it for his cabinet vowing 50% female cabinet. groan. BUT, the previous government hired one of those the earth is 6000-year-old lunatics with no science background. Trudeau hired a Professor from one of the top universities in science to head the ministry of science. She was full if not overly qualified for the post. The previous guy should be pumping gas. So yes he did the annoying PC thing but he did hire based on merit. Where the previous PM hired a man because he was a man and a friend of the PM.

The annoying thing is Trudeau did the right thing but said a dumbass thing which makes him look stupid and diminishes the high-quality hire as someone who got the job for "being a woman" - and Joe Biden did the same thing. Trudeau is a young guy and isn't a polished politician. Biden has been doing this for decades and he should know better.

Anyway, no one's perfect. And politically, decisions are made on politics. They look at the bottom of the ticket and decide who can get them the win. Harris was chosen largely to get voters out that Joe could not get. Joe's a boring bureaucrat - Harris has more of the "energy" of the ticket.

Still, the left, in general, has to get off their overly PC SJW nonsense because I am a liberal and it annoys me! People on the right just want to throw a rock at their TV.

It used to be that points were made subtly or presented more matter of fact than ramming agendas down people's throats.


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