We need to get rid of laws that confer benefits on individuals based on gender, ethnicity, and race. It is distructive and patently unfair.
You are absolutely correct. And I agree
And you are right about the Hispanics. Asians were in the same boat, as it were. Yet the whole idea was to adress supposed wrongs these groups “suffered”. At least there was some semblence of cause and effect.
With Arabs there is none.
It was garbage then and it is now. But at least you could make some sort of link between the past and those groups.
Yet the whole idea was to adress supposed wrongs these groups “suffered”.
What other groups suffered wrongs? Irish? Catholics? Italians? Jews? How far do you want to extend such a "rationale?"
Asians were in the same boat, as it were.
How do you define Asians? Here is how the Virginia Department of Minority Business defines them.
"Asian American” means a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, or the Pacific Islands, including but not limited to Japan, China, Vietnam, Samoa, Laos, Cambodia, Taiwan, Northern Mariana, the Philippines, a U.S. territory of the Pacific, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka and who is regarded as such by the community of which this person claims to be a part."
At least there was some semblence of cause and effect. With Arabs there is none.
A case can be made that there is now given the events of 9/11, Ft. Hood, etc. The point is that they have just as good a case as Cambodians, Vietnamese, Laotians, etc. Where is the cause and effect for these newly arrived groupls? You may not like it, but I understand it completely. We have created these victim groups and it makes perfect sense for other groups to want to hop on the gravy train.