[generally]

I used to think it was dishonest and maybe slightly immoral to do something like that. It still bothers me greatly, but now I am more inclined to think it is foolish not to.

A sad state of affairs. Drain the swamp. Prosecute the referees who aid and abet the cheaters.

[Alberta's Child]

There's nothing dishonest and/or immoral than meeting every legal standard of a stupid law. In fact, it's pretty well understood that one of the most effective ways of generating public support to overturn a stupid law is to have everyone follow it meticulously -- to their own advantage.

[Alberta's Child]

P.S. -- By law, a "minority" in the U.S. is a person with ONE parent who meets the legal definition of a protected race or ethnic group. What has happened in this country over the last 50 years is that there's been so much inter-marriage between Americans whose families have been here for more than a hundred years and those from Latin America who have been here for less than 25 years that there are more people who qualify as minorities -- including many whites of mainly European descent -- than there are people who would be considered "white only."

Who cares, if that's the case. It only helps expose the whole thing as a farce anyway.

[octex]

I had a co-worker admit to me that, because our HR dept. was stupid enough to include a block on the job application that said “Native American”, he checked that block.

He was not an American Indian. The stupid HR and PC people don’t understand that everyone born in America is a Native American.

I believe that helped him achieve some promotions, however.