04-25-2006, 01:35 PM
wm_hunter Wrote:Definitions of affirmative action on the Web:
Specific actions in recruitment, hiring, upgrading and other areas designed and taken for the purpose of eliminating the present effects of past discrimination, or to prevent discrimination.
www.uri.edu/affirmative_action/definitions.html
Measures taken to correct the effects of past discrimination in hiring and promotion
www.onlinewbc.gov/docs/starting/glossary.html
Established during FDR's presidency, intended to provide minorities with increased social, economic, educational, and other opportunities.
ftad.osu.edu/CSP/glossary.html
A program that became law with the passage of the Equal Economic Opportunity (EEO) Act of 1972, whereby employers, labor unions, employment agencies, and labor-management apprenticeship programs must actively seek to eliminate discrimination against and increase employment of women and minorities. ...
www.vec.virginia.gov/vecportal/lbrmkt/glossary.cfm
Positive steps to enhance the diversity of some group, often to remedy the cumulative effect of subtle as well as gross expressions of prejudice. When numerical goals are set, they are set according to the group's representation in the applicant pool rather than the group's representation in the general population. ...
www.unmc.edu/ethics/words.html
Good faith efforts to ensure equal employment opportunity and correct the effects of past discrimination against affected groups. Where appropriate, affirmative action includes goals to correct underutilization and development of results-oriented programs to address problem areas.
www.kumc.edu/eoo/glossary.html
Proactively hiring and promoting qualified individuals in protected groups such as minorities, disabled veterans, Vietnam-era veterans and women.
www.usd.edu/equalopp/definitions.cfm
procedures by which racial/ethnic minorities, women, persons in the protected age category, persons with disabilities, Vietnam era veterans, and disabled veterans are provided with increased employment opportunities. This will also include programs for monitoring progress and problem identification. It shall not mean any sort of quota system.
www.oregon.gov/Gov/GovAA/definitions.shtml
a movement that attempts to eliminate or remedy past, present, and future acts of discrimination or the effects of discrimination.
www.sphinxlegal.com/sphinx/content/freeresources/glossaryresult.asp
positive action taken to create a situation which promotes and assists elements of equal opportunity. This can mean removing barriers to equal opportunity in the workplace, such as training women so that they are eligible for a promotion.
www.artistwd.com/joyzine/australia/strine/a-3.php
actions by employers to seek out actively minorities and women for jobs and to provide them with training and other opportunities for promotion
www.wwnorton.com/stiglitzwalsh/economics/glossary.htm
the practice of actively seeking to increase the number of racial minorities in a work place or school. Such measures may include extra efforts to recruit more applicants, or may include actual quotas for hiring. Supporters say these policies are needed to overcome the patterns of employment and education created when minorities were excluded from many jobs and schools. Critics say some affirmative action policies are unfair, and amount to “reverse discrimination” against whites.
www.fasttrackteaching.com/termsmodern.html
a comprehensive strategy whose aim is to establish the same percentage of minority group members and women at all levels of the workplaces and unions as there are in the general population.
www.iwa2171.bc.ca/education/edu_gloss_union.html
Policy aimed at attracting individuals from groups that have been historically barred from organizations.
www.roundtoplewis.com/define.html
a policy designed to redress past discrimination against women and minority groups through measures to improve their economic and educational opportunities; "affirmative action has been extremely controversial and was challenged in 1978 in the Bakke decision"
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Affirmative action (US English), or positive discrimination (British English), is a policy or a program providing advantages for people of a minority group who are seen to have traditionally been discriminated against, with the aim of creating a more egalitarian society. This consists of preferential access to education, employment, health care, or social welfare.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action
[SIZE=2]I think that all people should have equal rights and oppertunity. I am one of the most anti-racist people you have ever seen, but I do not think a person should be hired because they are a memeber of a minority, when there are more quallified people for the position.
Harder crimes on racisim, a more equal society and state of mind of all people. People don't stand up to people that are racist - and that is just wrong.
That is what people should aim for - Not trying to hire more minorites because they are afraid of being accused of being racist, but trying to do the best to stop the hate and treat all people with equality.
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well said. that sums up my position quite well. i do not believe that america can learn a lesson on racism and discrimination when it actively does it against a the former socially ruling group. people bring up how blacks were slaves in the past or how the chinese were exploited but the fact is that no matter how well meaning they are, they are still stuck in the mindset of grouping people into race. they feel guilty for treating our ancestors the way they did in the past but they are making the same mistake by inheriting the guilt of their race even though somebody that is not them did those actions. the reason that minorities dont complain about it is because we want to take advantage of this. however, it is not right. if blacks had felt guilt and thus agreed to be slaves, we would still have slavery. people cant hold themselves accountable for what somebody in the past with the same skin color did
i'm getting off track. anyways, i think that the worst thing we can do while recovering from an anti-minority attitude is to convert to an anti-white attitude out of guilt. it's just as wrong and it punishes innocent caucasians who have worked just as hard and are just as qualified as any minority. look at the person, not the pigment