What's done more damage to the USA ? The feminist movement ? Or Affirmative action and quotas ?

Question

Thanks for your replies.

Answer 1

Both.  Like a good republican I think only white, land owning males should be allowed to have rights.

Answer 2

First of all, what feminist movement are you talking about?  Women are the WORST about tearing down and demonizing any woman THEY DON'T LIKE.  (Witness the thousands of snide answers to questions about Sarah Palin on here.)

And as far as Affirmative action and quotas, California figured out ten years ago that it doesn't work, and in fact, backfires.  It's the one thing California has done that MAKES SENSE, and therefore, the rest of the country has not jumped on the bandwagon with them.

Answer 3

I'd have to say the ditto-heads have done the most damage.  They allowed the right wing radio bums to infect their mids with total BS, red herrings, ad hominums and strawman arguments.  Then they trooped to the polls and voted against their best interests.  When the US began to turn into a third world hellhole for better than 2/3 of the country because of the mismanagment, goofball policies, dumb @ss wars, exported jobs, rotten trade deals, Jesus freak suck-ups and the overall incompetence of the Bush Junta these same ditto-head zombies got another dose of criminal propaganda and decide if getting screwed twice by these industrial grade neo-con bozos three times was even better.  You guys!

Answer 4

affirmative action. and quotas. When you take competition out of the equation you have stagnation. That is what ruined the education in america, and on the job, substandard workers had to be hired and kept, causing good workers to care less about performance, and the good ones were the ones laid off because bad workers were protected by quota status.The feminist movement was ok when it started. This was to give needed equality for women, but it has gone too far and now looks like a venue for lesbians.

Answer 5

Both feminism and affirmative action have helped and hurt.  I'm not aware of any institutionalized quotas.

Feminist and affirmative action initiatives that prevent discrimination are good for America.  If a minority with SATs of 1600 are admitted over a white kid with 1100 that is not bad.  If women/minorities with 1600 are rejected in favor of white kids with 1100 that is bad.

Quotas are universally bad (yet some professors grade on a curve - that is a quota system - go figure).

The answer is neither and both.  When used to prevent discrimination: good; when used to discriminate: bad.

Answer 6

affirmative action by far

Answer 7

they both have ways of pushing people beyond their capabilities and ruining everyone's time/money/and self esteem

Answer 8

Affirmative action and quotas by far.  We now have to do just that, fill a quota vs. picking the right, best qualified person for the job.  Shouldn't make a difference whether black, white, woman, other.  We live in a country that strives off competition.  

Answer 9

Affirmative action. The Women's Movement is all but gone these days.

Answer 10

Affirmative action, of course.  Promoting or hiring the unqualified and unable is a sure-fire recipe for failure.  Our country needs successes, not failures.  The most damage has been done in the field of education, where some teachers with less intelligence and understanding than their students has wreaked havok on our youth.

Answer 11

Conservatism.  It has been a constant anchor to America's attempts to rise to the challenges of the future.

Answer 12

they are both about over

Answer 13

Neither have done serious damage. The talk radio and Fox noise movement has done more to destroy American sanity than any other factor.

Answer 14

I would wager Affirmative Action (AA). AA endangers every race, not just white people. Blacks and other beneficiaries of AA are hurting their cause. By allowing there people to get jobs and into schools without being the best candidate makes them think they can skate through life not giving 100%. The only way to allow people to truly be equal is to show them that through hard work anything is possible. You have to teach people to get up when they fall, not to just let them get in lying down.

Answer 15

I didn't hear that when Clarence Thomas became a Supreme Court Justice.

Mr. News