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   NoFearPup said, 2 days ago

   No one wants white men to have money…

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   Bluejayz said, 2 days ago

   The eternal problem of the PC world of affirmative action. If New Haven had promoted based on the original exam results, they would have been sued by the minority firemen who weren’t promoted. Now they’ve got to promote all whites and will have their hands full of disgruntled minorities and possibly more lawsuits. You just can’t win.

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   believecommonsense said, 2 days ago

   i admit I’m having a hard time trying to figure out how a firefighter promotional exam could be devised that would be unfair/discriminatory toward blacks only, since Hispanic firefighters passed it along with whites …. i simply don’t get how that could be possible

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   IrishEddieOHara said, 2 days ago

   What a complete moron Clay Bennett is. In the real world, those who can do get promoted and those who cannot either go back and study harder or find some other sort of work.

   Complete liberal hogwash in a panel.

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   oldlegodad said, 1 day ago

   Me thinks that if the minorities were qualified to take the exam they should have F¿ck¡ng studied and not rely on the skin color. This is the THIRD Sotamayor decision overturned. Senate take note. Race/Ethnicity does not insure good law.

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   harleyquinn said, 1 day ago

   Burn baby burn. Time for the pendulum to right itself and just stop swinging. If you still see the color of a persons skin and think that it is important you need to burn right along this idea whose time past 10 years ago.

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   rtt470 said, 1 day ago

   Affirmative action is bull. The right person for the job. Period. I was screwed twice on a firefighters test because “the tests are to difficult”. If you can’t pass the test, you shouldn’t do the job. The test isn’t hard. Minorities just don’t show up for the tests to take them. North Dakota voted away Affirmative action, the rest of the country should follow suit. Where is equality if you have laws protecting minorities and not whites?

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   Simon_Jester said, 1 day ago

   Then I take it all you folks think ClarenceThomas should be removed from the Supremes?

   ( Got into Yale Law School by way of Affirmative Action. )

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   DrCanuck said, 1 day ago

   Right, it’s time to reverse course and start pushing those minorities back down to the bottom of society where they belong. This is a White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant male-oriented country an’ Jaysus died to keep it that way an’ soldiers have shed blood to protect it an’…..

   (good grief!)

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    Gladius said, 1 day ago

    Affirmative action was necessary when it was passed. There were many qualified minorities that never would have had jobs just because of their skin color.

    That does not mean that it should be eternal or that it doesn’t create its own set of injustices. Unfortunately, I don’t think we are quite ready to scrap it. There are still parts of the country where it is necessary. I’ve lived in some areas that are still very prejudiced. Often you’d have trouble noticing it unless you lived there since the percentage of minorities living those areas was practically nonexistant. That being said, I think we need to leave it to the courts, at the moment, to decide if any discrimination has ocurred. In this case, I think they got it right. The fire department didn’t even authorize an examination of the test to look for bias. It was a simple we didn’t get the results we were looking for therefore invalidate the results.

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    TrickyPickle said, 1 day ago

    How do you bias a fireman’s test against a specific minority?

    “Question 1) Are you easy to spot buck naked at night? Yes/No”

    Seriously though, I’m curious how this works. Is it blatant such as disqualifying anyone who lives in certain neighborhoods?

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    Gladius said, 1 day ago

    I don’t know anything about firefighters exams but the analogy segment on SAT’s would be a good example. One reason for the removal of analogies on the SAT was because the analgous relationships being looked for assumed a certain upbringing that minorities did not have. It was an environmental issue rather than intelligence. While I understand the argument, I don’t see that they found anything to replace the logic testing.

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    dtroutma said, 1 day ago

    I saw far more abuse of affirmative action to place females in “non traditional roles”, than any ethnic or racial minorities. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY should be the rule, but after a few initial years of leveling the playing field, and yes, removing ethnocentric bias, affirmative action should have died a just death.

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    HUMPHRIES said, about 17 hours ago

    Interesting to note who’s gotten upset with this toon …

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    parker said, about 10 hours ago

    luvya humps oh - welcome back

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    missbdiamond said, about 6 hours ago

    ..call me crazy, but when it comes to blood or smoke, I will always want the A+ student on the job.
    I’m an old white woman who always wanted to go to medical school. I never got better than a C in chemistry and I realized that it wasn’t meant to be. In stead of suing, might be nice if people accepted who they are, move on, and find what strengths they have, and use them. Whining and suing is NEVER attractive.

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    ANandy said, about 5 hours ago

    DrCanuck said: “Right, it’s time to reverse course and start pushing those minorities back down to the bottom of society where they belong. This is a White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant male-oriented country an’ Jaysus died to keep it that way an’ soldiers have shed blood to protect it an’…..”

    ANandy responds: Since when are you part of this White,… etc country.
    Butt out!

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    DrCanuck said, about 4 hours ago

    Hey, INanity, you need all the allies you can get.

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    BillWsr said, about 3 hours ago

    A job promotion exam should only include questions that will show that the examinee knows their craft and the extended leadership requirement of the position applied for well enough to execute that position.

    Those who would advance someone because of their race or gender or any other unnessary requirement, are doing the people who depend on that knowlege and leadership an injustice.

    Equality simply means the same, or no preferences. Those who demand preferences deminish everyone’s freedoms. To deminish freedom is to enslave everyone.

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    oldlegodad said, about 1 hour ago

    I am not nor ever have been a firefighter. BUT I have enough common sense that I am sure I could pass the captain exam. I am 72. I have read more than comic book in my life and do not think the world is against me. It maybe unfair, but so is life. You make your own life.