Quote:
Originally posted by Spanky
Is Affirmative action (or to be specific, quotas and preferences) an attempt to equalise opportunity or outcome? I would say outcome.
|
It's like medical marijuana. Sold as one with the intent of achieving the other.
"Equality of opportunity" vs. "equality of outcome" is a vacant slogan... a semantic dodge for social engineers to avoid being braded soft socialists. You can't cleave the two. I don't even respond when I see it used because the notion the two can be separated is such a cynical lawyerly manipulation of the issue that extended debate with anyone who'd use it is pointless. That person doesn't want to debate - they and their fellow travelers simply want to "win."
Threaded Mode