You're asking me to paint with a hammer. No, CE gets the fine tip.
everything you're saying tells me you're a weak reader and writer, not that my metaphor was bad (it IS bad, but I did what I wanted to do)
In fact you wouldn't even have gotten it had I not pointed it out
You're not trying to paint with a hammer. You're trying to hammer a nail with a paint brush.
I'm not the one who made a horrible metaphor that completely ignores the point it was trying to make. Your writing skills are more in question than my reading skills. The fact that literally nobody would have gotten it had you not pointed it out does not imply that our reading skills are trash. It's more likely to imply that you did a very shitty job of communicating your intention and standpoint.
Also, there is a very large difference between these two stances on affirmative action: 1. Minorities should get preferential treatment. 2. Minorities should not be treated differently than anybody else.
I do not believe that a black guy should get a job over a white guy simply because of the fact that he was born black. I believe that the black guy should get the job over a white guy if and only if he is more qualified for that position than the white guy. The same holds for hiring a white guy over a black guy for a job. And if you find that they are both equally qualified throughout the interviewing/evaluating process, then you have probably screwed up that process and there are flaws in your evaluation system. That being said...flip a coin if you have to.
I am personally against affirmative action in the form of preferential treatment of minorities. I am for it in the form of removing the already-existing prejudices that place minorities on their heels before the evaluation process even begins. Since the latter option is extremely unlikely to actually occur in society as it stands today, I lean more towards the preferential treatment due mostly to the fact that since white people do already have "an edge" when beginning the evaluation process for a job because of those prejudices, it is slightly more fair to give "an edge" to the minority should they still be in the running at the end of the process.
