John at Discriminations, one of my almost-daily reads, blogs about the Pontiac Fire Department’s skin color quota system. Quotas are supposed to be illegal in the U.S., but then again, so is skin color discrimination, sanctioned by the government.
In what I’d call tragic irony, the U.S. government, the same one that allows skin color discrimination in hiring and public university admissions, is suing the city of Pontiac, Michigan, for setting quotas, which is skin color discrimination.
Warning: Run-on sentence below.
Exactly how businesses and governments are supposed to hire lesser qualified minorities without having a “reasonable” idea of a number to aim for to satisfy the EEOC’s (a total waste of space and money) labyrinthine formula for hiring lesser qualified minorities and without being sued by the government for setting up a quota system designed to make the determination, is a dilemma, an unintended consequence of government-sanctioned race discrimination.
I’ve heard people say, in the same breath, they’re against quotas but support affirmative action, without the slightest idea that what they just said was total nonsense.
Any disparity between the number of blacks in a particular place of employment and their percentage in the general population is considered intentional discrimination. To non-bureaucrat types, especially those blessed with a rare quality, common sense, this is patently ridiculous. But fat government grants, contracts, and heavy PR causes some people to lose what little minds they had in the first place. If you think I exaggerate, read this gobbledygook and judge for yourselves.
Also see Adversity.net’s comment on the so-called Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, which are nothing more than quota guidelines obfuscated with bureaucratese. While you’re there, check out the whole site.
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