Comments on: Affirmative Action Comes to Britain http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/affirmative-action-comes-to-britain/ Colin Seymour's corner of the internet. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:23:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Great Blistering Barnacles http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/affirmative-action-comes-to-britain/#comment-7073 Great Blistering Barnacles Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:13:18 +0000 http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/?p=1053#comment-7073 I have to concur with you in that Affirmative Action is severely flawed. I live in South Africa and even though I was too you to have been involved with anything that the members of The Struggle fought against I was old enough to enter the job market with Affirmative Action firmly in place. Sadly for me I was of the race and gender which Affirmative Action was discriminating against most. In SA if you are white and male you are at the very end of the queue and every other minority group should be chosen before you. The positive side of this is that white males have to outshine everyone else by far in order to survive and as such have become sought after commodities, especially abroad. In the UK Affirmative Action should not have much impact because the groups being discriminated against are still a majority. In South Africa the opposite is true. The group being discriminated against most is by far a minority. To picture the effect of that, imagine the UK and an Affirmative Action bill where companies are required to discriminate against ethnic minority job candidates. Still in a prefect world... "If you’re perfect for the job, you should get it, regardless of your race, sex, class or creed." but the world isn't perfect and we all just do the best with the cards we are dealt. And even though the odds may be stacked against you it doesn't mean you can't come out on top. I have to concur with you in that Affirmative Action is severely flawed. I live in South Africa and even though I was too you to have been involved with anything that the members of The Struggle fought against I was old enough to enter the job market with Affirmative Action firmly in place. Sadly for me I was of the race and gender which Affirmative Action was discriminating against most. In SA if you are white and male you are at the very end of the queue and every other minority group should be chosen before you. The positive side of this is that white males have to outshine everyone else by far in order to survive and as such have become sought after commodities, especially abroad.

In the UK Affirmative Action should not have much impact because the groups being discriminated against are still a majority. In South Africa the opposite is true. The group being discriminated against most is by far a minority. To picture the effect of that, imagine the UK and an Affirmative Action bill where companies are required to discriminate against ethnic minority job candidates.

Still in a prefect world… “If you’re perfect for the job, you should get it, regardless of your race, sex, class or creed.” but the world isn’t perfect and we all just do the best with the cards we are dealt. And even though the odds may be stacked against you it doesn’t mean you can’t come out on top.

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