re: Preferential treatment towards minority owned businesses: how is this legal?

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solid business plan and any financial backing is a winner. Almost as good as being charismatic and getting a shitty Divinity degree and starting a non-denominational Christia

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My buddy's dad owns an engineering firm in BR and he's part Native American. They do well. I work for a company where the owner opened a side company doing the exact same thing and he named a disabled vet majority owner. He also does well.

At what point can I claim to be a minority if,say, I'm a white male living in a predominately nonwhite city? Just a hypothetical question.

Underground Atlanta - open to racist businesses since 1989.

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I'm sick and tired of how hard it is to be a white male in one of the richest

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Yeah, it's so tough to be a white male. Higher salaries, less time in jail for same crime, more likely to get hired, more likely to get a loan, less likely to be told a rental unit does not exist when it actually does, more likely to be shown all homes available in your price range by a realtor, more likely to be taken seriously, less likely to be pulled over, less likely be be searched for drugs when drug use is equal, blah blah blah. I don't know how you do it.

ETA: more likely to get into Reggies. ;-)

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When I worked for the government, every year out lab equipment had to get calibrated. One year they were so proud to have a woman owned company come and do it. Administration sent out all kinds of emails about it. How happy they were to support minority businesses. Well, she screwed everything up. We had to hire another company to come in and recalibrate everything.

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Did the person at your company that discovered the errors get shite canned?

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Yeah, it's so tough to be a white male. Higher salaries, less time in jail for same crime, more likely to get hired, more likely to get a loan, less likely to be told a rental unit does not exist when it actually does, more likely to be shown all homes available in your price range by a realtor, more likely to be taken seriously, less likely to be pulled over, less likely be be searched for drugs when drug use is equal, blah blah blah. I don't know how you do it.

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So you don't really believe in equality then, right? Just like all the other equality bullshitters. You're ok with discriminate against whites just because they may receive preferential treatment in other areas.

What if I identify as a transgendered, disabled, Navajo midget?

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Seems like open and shut discrimination to me.

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Sometimes its about economics, not race. For example, Urban Enterprise Zones can be every bit as effective in economic revitalization as tax credits to any industry. All depends on the application.

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So you don't really believe in equality then, right? Just like all the other equality bullshitters. You're ok with discriminate against whites just because they may receive preferential treatment in other areas.

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Point me to where I said or even implied that. Being pro-equal treatment and anti-discrimination does not mean I am for preferential treatment, affirmative action, etc. in fact, it means I am not.