Word: quota
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...definition racist to treat individuals differently on the basis of their race, yet this is precisely what affirmative action quotas require. Under these quotas individuals are hired for jobs or admitted to schools with their racial, sexual or ethnic backgrounds as a key reason for selection. As a result, other people lose school or job opportunities because they are from the wrong race, sex or minority group. Such quota programs are inherently racist and unjust...
...RECENT SUNDAY afternoon about 150 students gathered in Harvard Yard to express their support for affirmative action and its attendant quota systems. During the course of the rally one dissenter stood alone. Howard Jonahs '78 held a sign proclaiming "Affirmative Action is Unjust" on one side and "Hire on Merit" on the other. Although Jonahs says he received threats and taunts from members of the crowd, he surely represented a much larger segment of the Harvard community than was apparent that day. Even more important, Howard Jonahs was right...
...Quotas foster racism in many other ways as well. As such programs become more widespread, they will foster the belief that all successful minority group members have achieved their positions only through special privileges and quota systems. "He only got that job because he's a black" or "she only got that job because she's a woman" will grow from whispers to openly expressed opinions serving as the foundation for a reinvigorated racism and sexism. This is tremendously unfair to women and minority group members who gain their positions legitimately...
Affirmative action quota programs are also fatally flawed because they ignore qualifications for positions when this consideration is essential for the successful performance of job duties and school tasks. No one wants to be served by doctors, lawyers or plumbers who received their positions because they were members of particular minority groups. For an economy to work rationally and efficiently, it should run on considerations of merit and qualifications alone and not be burdened by useless, irrelevant racial quotas...
Some detractors regard Carter's ambition as exceeding even the generous quota to be expected of any presidential candidate. In Carter's case, there is an almost total humorlessness and an implacable quality to the pursuit of all his goals. Says a Georgia government official who knows him well: "He's got rock-hard, iron-hard confidence. He's like twisted steel cable inside." Trying to reassure an audience in Green Bay, Wis., that he was not dangerously ambitious, Carter pointed out that he had not always wanted to be President. Said he, in all seriousness: "When...