Comments by "sharper68" (@sharper68) on "Krystal Ball: Time To Admit Affirmative Action FAILED" video.

I do not think it failed it has been demonized and attacked as helping the "other" for a long time. The fact is white woman have been major benefactors in affirmative action. It is not as important as it once was before, the people whop support affirmative action are not the people who benefit from it anyway. Lets call that change a success and move one from it, we have lots to do.
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@StrategicWealthLLC Your argument is a sound in context and I once made it myself before reconsidering diametrical support for it later on. The element that broke it for me was an evaluation of the methods that had been traditionally used to select for those jobs in the past. Historically hiring practices were just as biased as affirmative action with out any rules around them and they propped up specific communities anyway in much the same way. We never were a meritocracy and so the criteria used to evaluate candidates especially for public jobs need more clarity. We never were hiring the best and brightest but predominantly people of a specific gender and race for key rolls. This was true before there were rules promoting minorities hiring to break historic inequities even in place. These kinds of policies are much more important in public service jobs that should reflect the community they serve. We should not go back to the default of ignoring minorities for these rolls and it is arguable it is not the problem it once was so these rules are not as necessary today. Evaluating the criteria used to hire people helps take out the innate bias that was in the system and this policy moved us toward the actual equality we both support but was not reflected in our society before these kinds polices where enacted and opened the workplace to millions of people who would not have been considered before.
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@lol This is not remotely true and is identify nonsense drummed up to redirect your poorly focused but genuine anger at a system you correctly sense is broken. You are just blaming the wrong people and are punching down instead of looking up. No one of note hates white people it is a lie made to make you feel better while solving nothing.
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@lol This spin is silly and does not make a lick of sense. The idea makes you look completely out of touch with reality. I personally dislike all overt bigots no matter their skin tone and do not choose to stand beside any of them. When you have to be this hyperbolic and bizarre to oppose another group you dislike your side is out of actual arguments. The spin makes you look simple or like a liar. On value it amounts to distinction without a difference. Opposing bigotry is laudable, making up imaginary enemies is delusional.
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