Affirmative Action

[luxe]

Found this, it's an excerpt from an article in the The Times. (No i don't know which article).

" South Africa is the only country in the world where affirmative action is in the favour of the majority who has complete political control. The fact that the political majority requires affirmative action to protect them against a 9% minority group is testament to a complete failure on their part to build their own wealth making structures, such that their only solution is to take it from others."

London Times

I hadn't thought of it this way before....your views?

 

[czc]

Its very funny.

 

[warchylde]

Found this, it's an excerpt from an article in the London Times. (No i don't know which article).

" South Africa is the only country in the world where affirmative action is in the favour of the majority who has complete political control. The fact that the political majority requires affirmative action to protect them against a 9% minority group is testament to a complete failure on their part to build their own wealth making structures, such that their only solution is to take it from others."

London Times

I hadn't thought of it this way before....your views?

I have been trying to find the original london times article but have been unable to do so - there are many sites and people that reference this paragraph but none that have a link to the actual article.

 

[EnchanterG]

Spot on. I understand redress. But almost 20 years later, if AA hasn't 'redressed' the 'inequities' of a 'previous, oppressive regime', then it is never going to.

 

[luxe]

Its very funny.

I don't find it funny at all, it's a terribly sad indictment of the utter failure of government to create a balanced society.

Imagine countries started embargo's or stopped trading until the unfair implementation of Affirmative Action was repealed. I wonder who could start such a stir, get the case to the Hague, and complain that AA is a form of oppression against a minority. Regardless of the past, two wrongs don't make a right.

 

[AstroTurf]

Nobody cares. No Oil in SA.

 

[R13...]

The quote sounds like typical Steve Hofmeyer'ish logic.

 

[murraybiscuit]

it could be worse.
the government could just take your house or your farm as is the case with most banana dictatorships.
just saying.

 

[Anony-mousse]

Nobody cares. No Oil in SA.

But lots of diamonds though. They might soon be conflict diamonds.

 

[EnchanterG]

it could be worse.
the government could just take your house or your farm as is the case with most banana dictatorships.
just saying.

Aye, but to be fair it could be even worse than that. We could be shuffled off to detention camps and gassed or turned into slave labour.

Have a happy thought for the morning

 

[luxe]

The quote sounds like typical Steve Hofmeyer'ish logic.

Then he must be the most logical one amongst us?

 

[R13...]

Then he must be the most logical one amongst us?

If ol' Steve's Malemasque logic suits you then yes, he'd be the most logical for you. Not for me though

 

[luxe]

If ol' Steve's Malemasque logic suits you then yes, he'd be the most logical for you. Not for me though

Perhaps you should read the quote again, as it is presented as FACT.

One does not require much logic to understand FACT, as I assume you a South African living in South Africa.

 

[warchylde]

The quote sounds like typical Steve Hofmeyer'ish logic.

And here we go again. So what vitriol will it be this time? Logic clearly angers you.

 

[macxsanity]

Bloody agents .........

 

[Lament]

Perhaps you should read the quote again, as it is presented as FACT.

One does not require much logic to understand FACT, as I assume you a South African living in South Africa.

+1

 

[TheMightyQuin]

The quote sounds like typical Steve Hofmeyer'ish logic.

Aaand we're off...."What, did someone DARE to criticise the gawwament aka THE BLACK MAN?? Racists!!!! Fools!! Agents!! Racists!! " Same old rhetoric from R13 and also Cloudster pretty soon I bet...

 

[dkhaley]

Nobody cares. No Oil in SA.

Gold and diamonds are also quite nice resources to have.

 

[ToxicBunny]

We apparently also have large volumes of Gas.... (and not the type generated by our politicians)

 

[wayfarer]

Found this, it's an excerpt from an article in the London Times. (No i don't know which article).

I doubt that this is correct.

South Africa is the only country in the world where affirmative action is in the favour of the majority who has complete political control.

False. Consider the case of Malaysia, where the majority Malaysians or very poor, with many living in abject poverty. The Chinese minority dominates in the areas of industry and finance, and largely keep the money in those communities. AA has been implemented as a facility to accelerate the move toward equity.

The fact that the political majority requires affirmative action to protect them against a 9% minority group is testament to a complete failure on their part to build their own wealth making structures such that their only solution is to take it from others.

False. It is testament to the fact that the apartheid practice of oppression and usurpation caused deep and long term devastation and suffering, done by a power hungry and greedy minority over an impoverished majority. Furthermore, you cannot build wealth structures without first having some wealth/capital, and even though a tiny fraction of the victims of apartheid do have some wealth, the great majority of wealth still lies in the hands of those who "acquired" it through facilitation of the old system.

While the present government may or may not be doing things "right", that hardly means that AA is not necessary.

I hadn't thought of it this way before....

Because thinking of it that way requires that you to first deactivate most of your cognitive processes used for rational thought.