Affirmative Action Poll

[queerbychoice]

[Poll #337331]

Comments

[jet.livejournal.com]

related to your poll is a post in academics_anon asking for people to participate in a questionnaire on affirmative action and racial attitudes of college students.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/academics_anon/526754.html

[joxn.livejournal.com]

Confidential to cheeser1: Yes, but did they use three, or four nails (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclavian_heresy)?

[interjections.livejournal.com]

You come up with the best polls :P

[(Anonymous)]

Just..wondering

race rhetoric

[eviltelepath81.livejournal.com]

Quotas haven't been legal in the U.S. for about a decade, at least. I got into an argument with a person in a cafe about it a month ago who was (mis)explaining affirmative action to a bunch of international students. The Right (and moderate Left) just go on and on about quotas to this day just to bring up an influential & unpopular phantom in front of people without mentioning that there aren't any quotas anymore.

Re: race rhetoric

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think they should use quotas. Sure, there needs to be some leeway and standard deviation and stuff, but if set up loosely enough, I think quotas serve an important purpose. Which now isn't being served anymore.

Re: race rhetoric

[eviltelepath81.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I could never really think of a srong case for why there shouldn't be quotas. I haven't thought about it in a long time. It's definitely easier to persuade people to support points systems affirmative action than quotas though (not that that makes points systems the correct course of action).