On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 18:31:27 -0500, "Mr. Grumpypants"
grumpypants@webtv wrote:


"The Daring Dufas" wrote in
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On 1/6/2012 3:32 PM, Mr. Grumpypants wrote:
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Speaking of affirmative action.
I haven't eaten in at MacDonalds in the last couple of
decades, but I remember they used to have written on
their
paper place mats,
"We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity
employer".
Isn't that a dichotomy?

--
Bill

No.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_Action

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson issued Executive
Order
11246 which required federal contractors to take
"affirmative action" to hire without regard to race,
religion and national origin.



Then explain why "Minorities" are being accepted into
schools while Caucasians with higher test scores and
qualifications are being passed
over? Is that Equal Opportunity, nondiscriminatory? The
same thing has been happening in the work force for many
years. o_O

TDD

That's not true. It's an urban myth perpetrated by the
parents of stupid children.

No, actually in many cases it IS true - in the workplace for sure.
MANY jobs are advertised and they might as well put right on the add
"white males need not apply" Particularly in government regulated
businesses - and government/civil service jobs.

A friend years ago when the Seagrams Distillery in Waterloo closed
down, was looking for a job. He was a BIG BOY - about 310 and 6'4",
and bald as a billiard ball
On the application was the question "are you a member of a visible
minority?"
He answered yes and got an interview -
The interviewer was taken aback, and asked why he answered "yes" to
the visible minority question.
He answered that he was a hardworking, intelligent, unemployed white
male, so was in the minority, and at 6'4" and 310 , and "shiny" he was
DEFINITELY visible!!