🚀 go-pugleaf

lzaird@io.org (lzaird) wrote:

>aa637@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (gordon smith) wrote:
>>Very well put. The trouble with people who support the quota systems is 
>>that they already have jobs. If they had to put up with what the average 
>>white male has to go through looking for work they would be in favour of 
>>scrapping it as well. Here's just the most recent thing that happened 
>>to me. I applied for an Assistant Managers job with a branch of the 
>>government. Human recources told me I was the only one who had answered 
>>the add. This is a $35,000  a year position. I was never called for an 
>>interview even though I was more than qualified. I was told my 
>>application had been thrown in the garbage and that there is now a 
>>visible minority from another city commuting daily for this job. I 
>>currently make $7,000 a year. This strikes me as very unfair and there is 
>>nothing I can do about it. I'm 39 and worked full time for 20 years 
>>paying my taxes and now the government does this to me? 

>Oh, there's an original little peice of rhetoric, the fabled 'quota'
>system.  Could it be that the person hired WAS more qualified than
>you?  Mabye?  No way, you're god, right?  Employment Equity is in
>place so that employers like Majestic Electronics, now defunct, can't
>pull stunts like they did (which was truly discriminatory hiring
>practices).  It's also there so that you AREN'T judged on race, sex,
>age, sexual orientation or religion...and if that makes it harder for
>you to get a job, well, sorry... 

You obviously haven't actually read the legislation. Discrimination on
the basis of race, sex and a host of other physical and ideological
criteria is now mandatory, on pain of fines or even criminal
prosecution. All you are arguing is that you prefer a Nazi-type
approach to social issues rather than the traditional liberal
approach. 

The danger of this attitude is that it may result, just like it did
for any number of other fascists in the past, in you being swung from
a lamp post sometime in the future.