Modern Racism...A Contradiction In Terms?
University places are decided on the basis of objective tests. In Brazil
and the USA these are ignored. Being in the top 50% of scorers who actualy
got into medicin is still enough to exclude you from medicine in Brazil and
in some cases 82% was not enough
In the USA racial set asides under affirmative action have a similar effect.
Merit based tests are illegal in the USA under affirmative action rules.
The DUKE power company tried to use objective tests, it tried to use
culturaly neutral IQ tests to exclude interviewer bias. Objective and merit
based tests do not protect you from being sued.
Only the US military is allowed to use them; which is why it still functions
and works. The blacks and whites have similar IQs.
Brazil never had racial legislation and because the Portuguese restricted
female immigration a great many interracial marriages happen. (nor did
Mexico) yet Whites rule the power structure.
The reason? The white genes found there way to the top. A successful
black/Indian would often marry a white and so on. The ancestors of the
elates in Mexico are often Mestizo and in Brazil also.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62685-2003Jun15?language=printer
Gabriella Fracescutti, 19, has filed one of nearly 300 lawsuits
against the State University because of its quota policy. She has
dreamed of being a surgeon since she was a high school freshman -- "I
like blood," she says sheepishly -- and studied during her entire
senior year for the vestibular, the national college entrance exam.
She did very well, scoring 82.5 percent, better than half the students
admitted ahead of her. But her application was rejected, essentially
because she is neither black nor poor.
"I just don't understand how you can justify someone with a lower
grade getting into the school, and turning me down. Why, because I
have blond hair?" said Fracescutti, the daughter of an architect and a
botanist. "I have friends who are whiter than me and didn't study and
didn't do well on the test, but they wrote down they were [black] on
their application and they got in. My grandmother is black. I could
have written down that I am black, but I didn't feel right about that.
In a country like Brazil, everyone's blood is mixed together."
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So thats the results of your policies.
So a white (or chinese) child from a poor background with a deceased
parent is worse of than a 1/4 black kid who is well of and whose
parents are molly coddled by the affirmitve action system.
The paradox or rather double standard of the 'anti-racism' meme is
that it encourages ethnocentracism in people of colour but denies it
in whites.
(That's why I fight for my race)
It relies on the unquestionable but impossible dogma that all races
are 100% equal in temprement and cognitive nature despite massive
evidence to the contrary.
It also undermines the possibility of democracy in that the clearly
different ethnic imperitives, interests and mores of sometimes
extremely disperate ethnic groups can not be met without unequal and
destructive compromise.
Modern, pseudo liberal governments more often than not benefit from
having a militant minority to use against nationalist parties, groups,
and movements within the society who challenge the multiethnic state.
Nationalism, far from being essentially exclusivist in relation to
other nationalisms, is inherently a universalist idea: nationalisms do
not, and cannot, come at the expense of other nationalisms unless the
others claims are too expansive and hence illegitimate to begin
with.
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