Posted on 04/25/2009 6:44:32 PM PDT by T.L.Sink
The Supreme Court heard arguments in an important discrimination case brought by 20 firefighters from New Haven, Connecticut. They charge that the city passed them over for promotion, despite the fact they achieved high scores on their promotion test. Nineteen of the firefighters are white, one Latino. No blacks scored high enough to qualify for promotion. The city then threw out the entire test and promoted no one. The firefighters who passed the exam are claiming they were denied promotion because of their race.
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I totally agree with you. It’s all part of the “dumbing down” of everything in our culture. PC thought, multiculturalism, moral equivalence, and ethical relativity is killing us and we continue to follow the lemmings headed for the cliff!
Good for you that you’re concerned enough to have read all that legalize minutia. I hope and prsy that you’re right and the white firefighters will win by that margin!
There has to be a way to stop it, along with the other anti-American pursuits by the governments, media and academia.
Short of a revolution, I don't know the solution.
I would like to read the article by Charles Murray. Can you post the link? Thanks!
As familiar as I am with such outrageous things as those you’ve experienced, I still react with anger. The very idea that we should be awarded “points” based on gender, race, ethnicity, class or anything else other than ability or individual merit is so completely un-American that I fear for the future of our republic. God bless you for your military service and I hope and pray you’ll have the faith and fortitude to fight to rectify the evils that afflict our nation.
It isn’t just a problem with the “wrong” colored individuals being denied promotion. Talk show host Mike McConnell received a call last week from a man whose father was a fireman in a big eastern city (Pittsburgh?). Sometime in the recent past a fifty-two year old woman applied to become a fire fighter in the city’s fire department. The department was forced to give the woman the test. The woman could not identify most of the basic pieces of fire fighting equipment. (The caller described it as like someone taking a test to be a chef, and not being able to distinguish a ladle from a strainer.) But the city put pressure on the fire department to find a test the woman could pass. This country is run by morons and will be the death of us all.
I recall all this stuff about discriminatory and biased testing hitting the fan with the Proposition 42 BS a couple of decades ago:
“Proposition 42 also requires the student to forego his initial season, but it does not allow the student to receive a scholarship that year. They are, however, eligible for non-athletic aid on a need or academic basis.
Gerogetown coach John Thompson and Temple’s John Chaney criticized the new proposal as culturally biased, and it is expected that Chaney will file a civil suit against the NCAA as a result.
Meanwhile, Penn State Women’s Basketball Coach Rene Portland expressed her approval of the proposition.
One of Penn State’s most visible freshmen athletes, Tony Sacca, also believes the rule will be helpful.
“I guess it’s a good idea. . . . I never had to worry about it,” the freshman quarterback said. “It’s just going to make it harder to get dumb people in, and we really don’t need them anyway.”
“I think you’ve touched on something very important: the old question of heredity v. environment. Generally, liberals have attributed everything good or bad to environment. But they’ve ignored the fact that PEOPLE CREATE THEIR ENVIRONMENT according to their intelligence, abilities and values. In the most recent addition of “The Bell Curve,” (the late)Richard Hernnstein and Charles Murray state that it’s a fact heredity is not less than 40% nor less than 80% of a person’s capability. Therefore, they took the median figure of 60% to do their research. I’m oversimplifying, but their conclusion was that HEREDITY is the most single crucial factor in creating an environment. I can send you a recent article by Murray demonstrating how the superior intelligence of the Jews exemplifies this. I know that statement is controversial but you MUST read it to understand it’s real meaning”
Yes put in in my mail by all means The jews are a good example when looking at the Nobel Laurettes in the Sciences.
Up till now one had to keep the truth hidden but that is changing with these crazy groups like the NAACP who spend their time being an embarasment to themselves.. Thank You for the reply
I recall all this stuff about discriminatory and biased testing hitting the fan with the Proposition 42 BS a couple of decades ago:
“Proposition 42 also requires the student to forego his initial season, but it does not allow the student to receive a scholarship that year. They are, however, eligible for non-athletic aid on a need or academic basis.
Gerogetown coach John Thompson and Temple’s John Chaney criticized the new proposal as culturally biased, and it is expected that Chaney will file a civil suit against the NCAA as a result.
Meanwhile, Penn State Women’s Basketball Coach Rene Portland expressed her approval of the proposition.
One of Penn State’s most visible freshmen athletes, Tony Sacca, also believes the rule will be helpful.
“I guess it’s a good idea. . . . I never had to worry about it,” the freshman quarterback said. “It’s just going to make it harder to get dumb people in, and we really don’t need them anyway.”
Thank You for the reply it was good reading.
Sadly, what you described is becoming all too typical. It would be hilarious if it weren’t so absurd. Firefighters need to have a basic knowledge of chemicals, how they interact with air and water, some knowledge of structural stress and design, etc. Another absurdity is that the PC people try to deny the very real biological differences between men and women. For example, all things being equal, men have much greater upper body strength than women. We all know that the physical strength demanded of firefighters on many occasions is tremendous and can mean the difference between life and death. What makes such idiocy as you described so insane is that it’s endangering the lives and property of us all.
There is no such thing as reverse discrimination. This is discrimination. It does not matter what color you are to be discriminated against.
JoMa
Absolutely! Discrimination is discrimination no matter how much lipstick is put on the pig’s lips. It was wrong in the past and it’s wrong now. In America, we’ve tried to rectify past wtongs by passing the Fourteenth Amendment and civil rights legislation. But now, many racial and ethnocentric self-interest groups want to ignore the “equal protection” clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in order to promote discrimination in their FAVOR. Nothing could be more bigoted and un-American that this whole process!
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