Monday, July 25, 2005

Thanks to the cut of my bathing suit, I have a really obnoxious sunburn on part of my boob. I don't get why it's only on one boob, either. What the hell? It's pissing me off, regardless, especially since it's peeling. Bleh.

Yesterday, I said I was going to write an angry rant about something and, although I didn't receive any suggestions, I'm going to do just that.

Get ready for Godel's view on...


Affirmative Action
Just, what the fuck, man?

I don't know where to begin on this one. I really don't. It's just so full of holes.
To begin with, taking for granted that this here black guy, Joe, is going to be significantly worse off than this here white fellow, Jack, is pretty sad. Especially when you consider the huge number of white North Americans who can't afford to shop anywhere but Wal-Mart.
In fact, I'd reckon I know more well-to-do "ethnic" than white people.

So, say Joe grew up happily, owning 5 trillion video-games and wearing designer clothes from the age of twelve. He's a studious guy, worked hard in school, got into his University of choice, graduated with flying colours, and applied for a job.
Jack, on the other hand, was born in a trailer park, and had to save up all the money he made from a shitload of unpleasant, low-paying jobs to even get into a University at all. He worked just as hard as Joe, maybe even went to the same school as him. Maybe they were friends.
They graduated with the same average, got into the same University, and did just as well as each other. Then, they both applied for the same job, but--oh no!--there was only one position available.
No hard feelings, they figured the better man would win.

But there is no better man, because Joe's black, meaning he gets the job, even though he doesn't need it half as much as Jack does and even though he wouldn't be any better at it.

AA, as far as I know, and I've read up on it a bit, doesn't take into account your social status. If Joe is pretty much working for a hobby, he'll get the job over Jack, who has been eating cat food for the past month, because of his skin colour.
Uh...hello?

If we're going to introduce OK'd forms of discrimination, shouldn't they at least be, ironically enough, fair?


Then, there's the whole other side of the deal. Say Bobby, a perfectly ordinary, well-off white guy, applies for the same job as Suzy, a perfectly ordinary, not-so-well-off white girl.
Suzy gets the job and Bobby, not harboring any particular feelings of malice, inquires as to why he didn't get the job, hoping to use the information to improve himself. Or, he asks, was it just that they saw Suzy needed the job significantly more? He wouldn't mind that.
However, he's thrown an arbitrary curve-ball:

"Oh, there's nothing wrong with you, it's just that your a man."

Now, I'm all for burning men just for having testicles, but that's just plain mean. And what's worse is that it would be the only true answer to his inquiries.

What if they'd declined Suzy's application because she was a woman? Methinks she, along with 90% of people around would be none-too-happy. They'd probably fire the well-meaning Bobby and hire her instead, just well...because!!

What if some one told you you weren't hired because you were of ______ race? Would that make you feel all bubbly inside, like you were helping close the wage-gap or help along equality? Not unless you were fucking stupid.
You'd throw a fit. I'd throw a fit. Everybody would, or at least ought to.

Shoot me, but I don't see how it's any fairer to be poked in the eye on account of being French, as oppose to Korean.


This whole deal is reminiscent of the BOARD OF EDUCATION's recent attempts to introduce a system of determining whether race is a factor in performance in school. They wanted to be able to know which areas of the city to "pay more attention to".
Because race has everything to do with it. Because it's inconceivable for those Chinese guys with the expensive cars they always drive up and down the street really fast in, while smoking, who're still living in their mom's house, to live mere meters away from me. In-con-fricking-ceivable.
Those Indian people who said they like my mum's garden, who just had a baby, could never live just up the street. It just doesn't work that way. o_o!!!

Instead of taking into account that all the white, black, asian, and whatever else kids failing particularly badly all live in a series of run-down row-homes full of weed and graffiti, they look at Jimmy Ho, who's been wearing the same grubby jeans and t-shirt all year, and see he's failing everything, then assume that Jessica Fong, who never wears anything twice in a month, must be, too, because they're both Chinese.

Brilliant. Bloody fucking brilliant.


Then, there's the Law of Employers, stating that of course they're all WASPy racists who are never going to hire a single non-white in their lifetime.
And if they were, do you really think they'd let good ol' AA get in the way of their jackassery? Really? Are you that fucking stupid?

And if you train new employers, who aren't biased at all regarding this, to give two craps about the race of their employees...how is that going to solve anything?
It's like that one episode of South Park, where Eric throws a rock at Timmy because he called him a fat-ass and gets arrested for committing a hate-crime.


What happens when that one decade repeats itself, only more-so, and none of the white folk have jobs?
A Savage Hypocrisy indeed. *rolls eyes*


What's more, ignoring all this, I'd feel pretty ill-at-ease if I was only hired because I was white or a woman or whatever. I'd also be pretty super-pissed.

At least nobody gives two shits around here, for the most part.

Homogeneous = suck.

For now.

We'll all be beige, eventually. End.



I feel like it wasn't angry/coherent enough. I'm out of practice.
There's stuff I actually want to rant about, but it's too private for here. IRL people come here sometimes.

Tch.

Perhaps I'll go the way of the Azure, eventually.
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