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When Survey Magnet approached me to write this, I though it was fitting for a privileged white kid to lend his comments on the “disadvantaged work welfare program”.  I’ll be honest too..ethical was a multisyllable word I hadn’t heard in a loooong time.  I thought to myself, maybe I should take my time and make a well thought out argument and provide examples for both sides of the argument.  After many hours and nearing baldness from pulling out my hair I settled on just giving you my take on the ethicality of affirmative action.
Afirmative action is the biggest load of BS to come out of Washington until the ADA.  Ethics has to do with knowing what is right and what is wrong and following what is right.  I will concede that it is wrong to discriminate against someone based on race or disability, but I don’t need some fat ass politician in Washington to tell me I shouldn’t be discriminating.  The very idea that they stick their hand into my business and force me to not discriminate is wrong.  I don’t recall forcing anybody to do anything as being right.  It sounds more like rape.  Legislators are raping our businesses by forcing this hypocrisy on us.  Let me see if I understand this.  It’s OK to influence businesses (by influence I mean give tax breaks ) to hire individuals based on race or disability to create a “diverse” environment, but we can’t NOT hire them based on those factors.  How the hell is that in the least bit ethical?  Its right for them to be hired based on race or disability, but it’s not right to NOT hire them based on race or disability.  Give me a f***ing break.

Affirmative action imposes the idea that those who benefit most from it are the most harmed from it.  Imagine you have to deal with a professional be it a dentist, Dr, PE or whatever.  Would you feel more comfortable knowing this person had to try just as hard as everybody else to get where they are or would you go with the person that was likely let in on special circumstances and given special credit because of their “disadvantage”?  I think I’ll go with the former, but to each their own.

Affirmative action makes you choose a team that looks good on paper, but in reality lacks any good cohesion.  This in and of itself goes against everything you know to be right as a professional.

• We have Li to from the Far East, he’s Asian, so he is good with math, but nobody can understand him because his English is so bad.
• Then we have Alice.  She is your typical 35 year old mother of 2 and adores her children so much.  She reads to them every night and she WON’T let you forget that little fact.
• Just down the hall we have Jose.  He gets dropped off by his buddies every morning and stinks up the bathroom with his feces from the rancid tacos the night before, but hey it’s cool.  That’s just the way it is.
• Across from him we have Shalin.  The curry covered concoction that he proceeds to heat up for lunch rivals the stench of his own body odor and what Jose left in the bathroom.
• Diagonal from him is Blake.  Blake is a paraplegic, but nobody knows why because they’re all too afraid of offending him by asking how it happened.
• Lastly we have Jamal.  Jamal’s idea of “ballin’ outta control” is springing for the extra crispy on pay day.

It’s wrong to put people in this position.  They have nothing in common and thus have no desire to hold a conversation with one another regardless of the topic.  The lack of cohesion in your team creates an uncomfortable work environment for all your employees and that is not a professional environment. In your inane attempt to diversify your employee group, you have effectively alienated everybody. You should have chosen people based on their qualifications and how they presented themselves in an interview, not what they look like.   I know this paragraph may seem harsh but it is true.  Whenever we have a company meeting, the blacks all sit together, the Indians all sit together and generally the few Asians group in with the whites.

What was the point of hiring this diverse group if they don’t ever interact unless they are forced to?

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