I could not agree with you more. I do not agree with affirmative action at all either. It's like if people really want to make society better, then let those who are better qualified get the job, not someone else because there are too many whites or too many blacks, or whatever, that already work there. It does not make any sense to me that if people want to make the job better, or most often a school, then why anyone would bring the dumber people or less qualified people into that school, or into that job? It only hurts the company/school more than it helps, in my opinion.
I found it interesting that they stated that conservatives are not the ones involved in this study, and this can be translated into the assumption that people believe conservatives to be racist. I have an older sister, and when she was applying for colleges she found out that she did not get accepted into one of the ones that she was applying for because she is white. She had a good gpa and her SAT scores were pretty high as well. She found out that a kid in her class, who is Spanish, got accepted into the school, even though he had lower grades and a lower SAT score. This upset her and she automatically knew that it was because of affirmative action. It's like if people want to make society better, and then let those who are better qualified get the right to go to that college, not someone who is dumber. It does not make any sense to me that if people want to make the school better, then why anyone would bring the dumber people or less qualified people into that school, or into that job.
Two other states, California and Washington, had already taken similar steps. This makes me wonder, why not everywhere else? Some arguments state that diversity really helps out colleges or other work areas, but i can't fully agree to that. I found it interesting that in this article, a black man spoke out against affirmative action. he said that "it's often said that diversity has been proven to make for a better-quality education. Has it? How?..." The article continues to explain that people who try to prove it with studies, and none of them are conservatives, find again and again that, as I think we all knew, diversity does not really have anything to do with giving you a more beneficial experience in terms of how much knowledge you have in your head or how much moral wisdom you have in your head after you come from college.
I am taking some other online classes this summer, and one of the classes is law and society. Part of the class required to do a debate, and had to do research about a controversial subject. Because I was curious about this topic, I decided to look up more on affirmative action. I found an article that dated back to 2007 about this. It stated back in a 2003 a ruling involving the University of Michigan, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a limited consideration of race in admissions to allow colleges to create a diverse student body. However, the voters in Michigan have since passed an amendment to the state constitution that bans the use of affirmative action in the public arena.
immigration has always been a controversial subject. Glenn Beck does try to obey the Constitution and most people find him ignorant or annoying to listen to, just because he is a republican, but most people do not really fully listen to what he is saying; they do not pay attention to the context of his speech. I believe he does not present the immigration strong enough. I agree, that immigration is not an issue based upon if someone is a republican or if someone is a democrat, it is an issue that everyone has an opinion on. immigration has always been a controversial subject.
Yes, Glenn Beck does try to obey the Constitution and most people find him ignorant or annoying to listen to, just because he is a republican, but most people do not really fully listen to what he is saying; they do not pay attention to the context of his speech. I believe he does not present the immigration strong enough. My mom is an immigrant and I guess that makes me more intollerant of illegal immigration. I see it as, if she and her family could come over here to America, LEGALLY, then so should everyone else. She waited like she was supposed to to come here, and did it the right way. What I fear when it comes to Mexicans coming into this country illegally is that they are taking advantage of the American system and bringing us down with them. People do not realize how they are probably laughing at us saying "oh stupid americans they do not realize how much we are taking advantage of them..."
its only in the united states that we have stupid people BRAINWASHED believing that it is ok for them to enter into this country. I personally believe, and I know there are a bunch of other people out there in this country that believe the same exact thing but they are afraid to announce it to sound "racist," but that mexicans feel that we, Americans, took a part of their country for them and now they are trying to over populate our country with their people to try to take it back. People do not realize the importance of obeying the Constitution and following it strictly.
and if it breaks the law, then they get punished. so pretty much what they were saying, and what everyone else is class says about illegal immigration (being on the OK side of it) is that it is alright to break this law. if that is the case, and someone felt that it is fine to break this law, then who is to say where and when to draw the line? why not kill a thousand people too? yes that may be a little extreme but I am just trying to prove a point. its funny because in any other country, you could be killed or sent to jail for entering illegally.
Immigration, especially illegal immigration, has always been and will always be a topic that will be debated. I took a class last semester with professor john iceland about immiration, and a lot of it was factual based, but we would have discussions during the class as well. most students did not have much to say when it came to legal immigration, but when it came to discussing about illegal immigration, that is when the classroom got heated. It used to get me upset and frustrated when I would hear these hippie people in class saying "well these [illegal] immigrants need to provide for their family as well and need to keep them alive..." I do not understand what people do not get that illegal immigration BREAKS THE LAW!
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