In what ways do you think affirmative action causes harm?
@klholt21 Says:
Merit based system is a perfect world. There are still people who hire who will overlook a person of color, a woman, or someone with a disability.
@CatEyedGoddess Says:
Oh my goodness, the racist propaganda. But America has been propagating race and racism since the beginning slavery. Yes, affirmative action was created for black Americans for the reasons that he said, but what he didn’t say is that you still actually have to be qualified. Also, he didn’t mention that the greatest factor of affirmative action are white women and that white men also benefit from affirmative action if you are gay or disabled, you qualify. Affirmative action stop benefiting Black people along time ago. Also white men do exactly the same thing.
@royshashibrock3990 Says:
The verbal gymnastics here are astounding. The leading statement is that Blacks deserve AA. Perhaps, but AA has been in place since 1964. So the question is, for how long? Forever? Then Dennis squirms through his reasoning of how AA is harmful. What's really harmful is any hiring based on race. It was wrong back in the day when Whites did it, and it is wrong today. Dennis seems very comfortable sitting on his fence.
@raphaelrae8186 Says:
Also it's wrong because today's Blacks are DOING racism, and never really get it, and their victims have to pay for what past Whites did, based on the narratives about "ignorance".
@crowmob-yo6ry Says:
The biggest harm caused by affirmative action is the constant attacks and ridicule affirmative action recruits receive from ignorant people like you.
@ConservativeBrotherDaily Says:
That’s the worst. Knowing how hard you work, if DEI was any part of it/affiliated, your merit will always be questioned. Same way with our open borders, instead of assuming every Hispanic I meet is a hardworking immigrant who came over here legally/ by the book, we now never know and will always wonder, who are they, did they go through the right vetting process to get here, we now see race and question the merit of that person being in this country same way the merit of a minority is questioned being in the boardroom. Sad
@ursamahan-worlds5726 Says:
So how does America right the wrongs of discrimination since it's beginning?
@billcummings6958 Says:
Wrong
@dlit Says:
Big tax cuts given to the rich and the corporations by our last three conservative presidents - Reagan, George W., and Trump - along with numerous provisions written into the tax code by Republicans for the rich and corporations - have widened the gap between rich and poor, gifting more of the country''s wealth to the top 5%, 1% and .1%. As a result, working-class wages have been flat for the last 43 years, while the income of the wealthy has skyrocketed. Compared to that, any difficulties with affirmative action are insignificant.
@NicholasMGlasson Says:
New Zealand recently repealed Affirmative Action laws!
@maxxon99 Says:
Remember when women who got promoted were assumed to be sleeping with the boss?
Who the F wants that?
@seangriffin2053 Says:
Of course. Because not only does it give the false idea that life should be handed to people, it also creates resentful feelings among other groups. This is the goal. To force future generations apart and make believe you want to help them.
@airgunfun4248 Says:
Hey Dennis you SB you gonna congratulate another maggot with an f for buying a kid and raising it in a s0d 0 myt hellscape????
@Twilightiger96 Says:
*Affirmative Action Advocates Don’t Care That They Cause Harm*
And in other News; Activists and Politicians alike truly DO NOT CARE for the Ideals or Causes they champion, much less for the people that support them... they merely use them as a means to gain power.
@ruanavailos4253 Says:
I doubt that anyone is still alive today who seriously believes intelligence depends on ethnicity.
Of course, there are external factors that can influence academic success, but ethnicity/skin color is not one of them (online are some excellent studies on the subject available).
Affirmative action is insulting and degrading. Those who are in favor of it send a clear message to black kids: You're not as clever as Asian and white children and therefore unable to master the subject matter without lowering the standards. Your ability to handle complex tasks is limited. This lack of intellectual capacity is innate and there's nothing you can do about it. That's why the abolition of Affirmative Action is "racist". The purpose of the program is to make up for your lack of cleverness. It just isn't FAIR to demand the same performance from you as from white and Asian students (you can't graduate without our support).
You understand that, don't you?
Oh yes, they did. Unfortunately, far too many black Americans have understood this message over time. Especially in the last 15 years (Obama worked hard to make black people understand their role in society, which is that of the victim). Black Americans have learned that failure is never their fault; they're VICTIMS of their GENES (just like obesity). Of course, there's also the issue of "systemic racism", which makes it even more difficult for blacks to succeed. The perfidious thing about this narrative is that the latter could be fought if it existed, but not an innate lack of intelligence.
That's how you get people to give up before they've even tried. They remain poorly educated, poorly paid or unemployed, spend their lives in poverty and dependent on the handouts of "progressive" social justice warriors. Lifelong voters of the Democratic Party.
@JohnBdog Says:
Yep. When half of the Ivy League Schools remove their Presidents for cause, and all were women, it is time to stop playing pretend. This has nothing to do with sex. It has to do with forcing quotas based on attributes other than finding the best qualified person for the job. I have known several women who could run Harvard and do a great job. None had an impressive pedigree, let alone one that was falsified.
@capotegabriel Says:
PraguerU = Trump's weird cult
@Jeffrey-i1n Says:
You can believe one thing I will never fly United Airlines if that terribly dangerous policy is implemented in their hiring. UNITED AIRLINES shareholders, if possible absolutely need to oust that CEO or company president or whatever his title is he needs to have his ass bounced out of that company
@AlanRoehrich9651 Says:
Affirmative Action Advocates are narcissistic sociopaths wirh a savior complex.
They don't care how much damage they do, or to who, so long as they themselves are seen as important and as "doung something."
@bruce9648 Says:
They're doing the same thing in the medical field
@NoToobForYou Says:
SJWs like to speak of "internalized racism" when not-whites(*) fail to toe the leftist line. It is a rhetorical way to maternalistically deny agency when a not-white person thinks for himself politically. To the extent internalized racism really exists, it is manifest as not-whites being convinced they are doomed to failure without the nanny state giving them an unfair advantage.
(*)I use this term in place of "poc" because they both mean PRECISELY the same thing, but it makes wokies bristle at its forthrightness.
@pacarter7169 Says:
On a personal basis… despite my age, my employer knows that I am very good at my job… not because of my skin color.
@Longjohnsilver58 Says:
AA needs to end. It was always unwise, counter productive, and unconstitutional. It should have never been and needs to end yesterday.
@michaelferguson364 Says:
Facts!!! We need to become a merit type society
@Aegius Says:
I am going to avoid American airline companies like the plague. I don’t want to board a plane and fly on a plane with a pilot of questionable competency.
@richardque4952 Says:
Affirmative action is just another form of clientilism.
@chinajazzcat Says:
You forgot to mention that Maoism was also an anti-intellectual movement. Plenty of that on the right today. The real threat to America is polarization, which this kind of fear-mongering only contributes to.
@bearowen5480 Says:
You're completely correct, 100%, Dennis. I'm a retired airline pilot with a 20 year career from 1985 to 2005. I flew with female pilots who were outstandingly talented, and with some that were barely competent. The weak ones had a history of fighting to keep their jobs through union support and lawsuits. Were it not for affirmative action they would never have made it through their probationary first years at the airline. They were tokens, hired and retained to keep the EEOC Feds off the company's back. Fortunately the concept of two pilot cockpits kept the flying public safe. But now with United Airlines' CEO Scott Kirby's commitment to DEI pilot hiring, we have a rapidly increasing possibility of two DEI hires in the cockpit at the same time. Add to that the increasing possibility that their flight will be in the care of a DEI hired air traffic controller, and you have a classic case of a recipe for disaster. It hasn't happened yet, but it will.
@TJHambright-fk7eq Says:
Affirmative action hires are often not qualified for the positions they are hired for, it's causing havoc and harm across the country! Lower the standards to compensate for that and things get even worse!!
@billwhite1603 Says:
But by affirmative action for mostly past discrimination punishes those that try and do better instead of those that did most of the harm. Be a white male and try to get into a good college, or get a job. Many companies have fired white men and/or stopped promoting them. Any preference based on race is racism. It is either right, or wrong. It is either against the constitution or it is not. The supreme court says it is wrong and illegal. It is also morally wrong despite the heart "sometimes" being in the right place. Denise Prager once said "tell a poor white kid from a trailer park he his privileged." But now you are saying it's ok.
@rickygreider4281 Says:
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@dks13827 Says:
Trump and I assume that his ss folks are great. ha ha ha ha !!!! oh my God that is so funny !!!!!!
@dks13827 Says:
Damn right !!! er, Boeing should get a quota guy to run Starliner !!!! and 737 Max !!!!
@ishtarlew598 Says:
And this also does far more damage than good in universities.
@MichelleyB-zk3eh Says:
I will never fly United
@pranavpillai7778 Says:
Race disparities come from a combination of structural and cultural factors. Patronization does not fix these issues.
@JoeyInkwell Says:
Anytime there's any possibility that someone who has your life in their hands might have been hired for their skin color or who they have sex with it's time to shop somewhere else.
@bbarrett726 Says:
Joe admitted that that's why he picked Kamala for his VP
@Hawken54 Says:
AA is racist. It's telling minorities they aren't smart enough. So, compensation is made via AA.
@Greymannn Says:
Black Americans deserved affirmative action 80 years ago, but no longer. Those who desire to leave their bad situation in 2024 can work hard and achieve their goals. The problem comes from growing up without male role models and thinking that the thug life is the answer to anyones problems. The black community won't succeed until they stop being victims in their own minds. Freebies made this mess, and more freebies won't fix it.
@Greymannn Says:
When blm, or any other organization that represents a racial group, starts putting their fist in the air, it isn't for equality but supremacy. Blm and antifa.......... are for marxist supremacy. Their motives are clear and an existential threat to our nation and liberty everywhere.
@mr.bread3circus Says:
We just need you to stop wearing sunblock and sunglasses to even the playing field.....
@rogeralsop3479 Says:
Wise Dennis Prager
@YepTriedToTellYou Says:
You can’t fix this. This is genetic stupidity.
@robertjanicki5906 Says:
Spot on analysis of the fundamental flaw in affirmative action. It gives the progenitor a sense of satisfaction and superiority in believing they are better because they dained to righteously help an inferior person. Bad reasoning with a poor outcome.
@whydoyoustillusehotmail9473 Says:
Jews did
@SHARKVADERS Says:
PRAGERU!!!!!
@BIGBADDIVAS Says:
Dennis Prager’s talking points are verbatim from the KKK.
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