Do affirmative actions laws create more fear and hatred than benefits?

Question

Do affirmative actions laws create more fear and hatred than benefits?

Answer 1

Yup.  In my opinion, it creates more hatred and less respect.  If a woman or a minority gets a job, many of her co-workers might be bitter and simply assume it is because she is a woman or a minority.  There as the individual hired is not taken seriously even if they were actuality hired on their own skill.

Different treatment never equates to equal treatment.  As long as women (and minorities) are treated differently they will always be viewed differently and thereas never equal.

Answer 2

Yes, they do because as long as affirmative action is around, people will question the merits of a persons success.

Economic based AA is about the only form that can benefit society at large.

Answer 3

It creates misunderstanding because people assume that the hired are less qualified. AA is written as a way for companies to rid themselves of their unseen prejudices, as people in the past may have assumed that a minority or a woman could not handle the job and therefore would overlook the employee. Yes this did happen in the past, and if it happens today I am not sure as I have not seen or conducted any experiments to prove so. Many people misunderstand AA thinking it will hire underqualified people based on their race or gender, however the law states that among a pool of EQUALLY qualified people, the employer may choose the minority or woman. Any employer that chooses and underqualified minority over a qualified majority is breaking the law.

Even when AA is used, it may be used for 10 people in a company of 1000. So I hardly think it's anything to worry about or that it is really as bad as people assume right now.

I would question a person if they always assume an employee is there because of AA. It's not AA's fault, but their own misunderstandings of the law and misconceptions about others.

Answer 4

creates more hatred I think. If all government programs where based upon the person economic status instead of race/gender we would all be better off.

Answer 5

I don't think so.  I think AA laws have generally been good.  We have improved the situation considerably in the last 40 years or so, though I think we still have a ways to go.

Occasionally there's been something tried that didn't work, that nobody liked, and we did away with it.  School bussing, strict numerical quotas, etc.  But we did away with those things because they weren't popular on either side, and they didn't work.  On the whole, though, affirmative action -works-!

Answer 6

It creates more hatred on both sides of race and gender. Yes.

Answer 7

It certainly is a strange way to atone for the sins of the past. It gives the impression that women and minorities are inferior and need help just to get ahead. Of course, it's a given that most people are biased in some way, and that may influence their hiring practices. However, the remedy to that societal ill is not found in quotas.  

Answer 8

It would depend on the reactions of the specific people who don't benefit from it. But from my dad's experience, it created benefits for an incompetent Hindu woman in his office and a lay-off for him.

Answer 9

It is a double edged sword.

Yes people will always question why someone was hired. If they got the job on their own merit or for other reasons.

On that note if people think an individual can not discriminate during hiring you are crazy. It happens everyday. I have been behind closed door meeting and heard some crazy stuff.

A company may not discriminate but if an individual within that company who is responsible for hiring has biased opinions it is still going to happen.

Answer 10

Why are you asking this?