re: Often unqualified affirmative action students like Kamala Harris fail the bar exam

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Because you didn't go to one.

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So. By definition. Your assertion regarding why i oppose affirmative action is false. Just sayin

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Other types of preferences will always exist in any type selective situation, whether it is hiring, admissions, sports tryouts. These include friends, family, donors, alumni, etc. This is just a part of life in every country that has ever existed in the world. You may as well make your peace with it.

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Why is nepotism inherently less of an issue? I think if you did a study on which demographics are more likely to benefit from nepotism in these situations you would find that things like AA don't even scratch the surface in terms of evening the playing field.

That said, I am against AA because it gives people an excuse to assume that every minority in a good school or good job received assistance. Wouldn't it be equally unfair for me to assume every young white hire has connections to the upper management? I think it would be very unfair for me to assume that.

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Because you can hide your sister's frat boy eff up in a menial job without getting your arse sued off. Plus, "they sucked at their job" isn't a legal defense.

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Wut?

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Do you speak English, mofo?

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Your first response was completely unintelligible.

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created a class of worthless work slugs that you couldn't rid yourself of, without threat of litigation.

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I am curious to see your source on this. From my observation, most folks "experiences" with AA are anecdotal assumptions about how someone was hired. If you need a reference look at the original post. He makes an assertion about someone receiving preferential hiring with zero proof or reference. That is how this subject is almost always handled and therefore you and the OP have no credibility with me unless you present actual facts.

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That said, I am against AA

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I'm not, at all.

But I am against solely race based AA. Children of a Black multimillionaire should not be supported by AA.

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Children of a Black multimillionaire should not be supported by AA.

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A child of a multi-millionaire is far more likely to benefit from other forms of preference (which are far more rampant) than instances of AA being the difference.
However, just like anyone complaining about AA my opinion is based solely on anecdotal observation which is prone to being incorrect.

If we are talking about school admissions or job hiring my opinion is fairly straight forward: There should be minimum measurable qualifications that are non-negotiable. Once those are met the school or the work-place should be able to select whoever they believe is the best candidate for their school or their company. Best candidate sometimes means "best fit" in terms of skill-set but should probably not have anything to do with race or gender.

That said, certain races and genders benefit overwhelmingly from nepotism compared to other demographics and so while I don't support AA conceptually I actually think it isn't doing any harm. In fact, despite its flaws it probably helps more than it hurts over all...

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Often unqualified affirmative action students like Kamala Harris fail the bar exam

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We've still never seen Obama's college records. I hope they don't think they can pass off another affirmative action case on us.

The thought process is these people gave a portion of their time to service. This time could have been spent training or attaining qualifications, but was spent in service.

Affirmative action people were born a minority.

I was specifically commenting on you wondering why conservatives don't complain about VP as much as AA.


Fwiw, I'm against VP executed to the level it is

Get more minorities interested in STEM and appreciating higher education.

Get merit-based scholarships requiring grades equal to those of other scholarships.

Get trade school options for ALL lower income people who don't have the gumption or ability for higher education while emphasizing the importance of higher education so they work to give their kids a better life and have the means to do so.

Criminal justice reform.

If the above doesn't work, nothing will.