Affirmative Action is Not Justified

It's entertaining to hear someone who claims to hate the "racist" discrimination of AA, several paragraphs later, pandered to pseudoscientific "race-science" in trying to argue that POCs are inherently less intelligent than others. How utterly despicable. I reject your "valid definition". Racism IS be motivated by the belief of superiority otherwise how is discrimination logical. If you discriminate without believing that some people are better or more likeable or less violent or more intelligent than others then your discrimination makes no sense. Racism is logically founded on the belief that some people are better than others. Without such a belief it is impossible to be racist since your racism would be based on nothing and yet racism is based on s belief of superiority. Your laughable claim that the KKK aren't white supremacists reveals your own recognition of the ridiculousness of your shrinking corner in this debate. You argument doesn't have a leg to stand on. The KKK are white supremacist to the core. And what a surprise it is to hear the KKK saying "we're not supremacist". What do you expect?! The KKK killed and lynched black people in the belief that they are lesser human beings and are inferior. That is the entire basis for their hateful lies. Positive discrimination recognises that all groups of people are equally intelligent, equally valuable and equally capable. AA recognises that we live in an unfair, prejudiced society in which our prejudices against POCs and Women lead to the disadvantage of those groups. AA sees that this is a problem and thus we need to fix it. Positive discrimination does fix it. The only thing that you have done in this debate is made wild, bigoted and offensive assertions. Throughout your writing there hasn't been the remotest snivel of argument, logical reasoning or explanation for your ridiculous claims. I have on the other hand provided thorough reasoned explanations as for why we have an imbalanced society and how AA will fix it. I have you 3 arguments for how AA fixes it: 1; role models 2; artificially increasing numbers 3; changing perceptions. Please tell me why I'm wrong! You have just made assertions without any arguments. Give me an explanation as to why my 3 arguments don't work. Right now, you have given nothing of merit and thus my 3 arguments stand. AA does work in many countries such as Singapore where the Malay community saw an increase from 0.5% to 5.4% in University admissions and at the most recent election all candidates were Malays showing how successful AA has been in lifting up previously disadvantaged groups. AA can work in the USA too. Japan is a racially homogenous society by the way and yet it also has a massive gender pay gap due to lack of AA getting women into the workplace. Concerning poor people, I really don't care what tax avoiding billionaires have to lecture us about. What I care about is that social mobility is at an all-time low and that moving between classes is extremely hard. If you die poor most of the time it's not your fault. Politicians don't listen to you, nor does the media, nor do the corporate elite. They don't care. You cannot wriggle your way out of the fact that if you're born poor it is extremely hard to succeed. AA helps poor people to succeed because it forces them into the workplace and university guaranteeing their success, allowing them to act as role models and changing misconception about poor people. Jewish and Japanese people do not and have not faced the same level of racism of racism in the USA as Black people and even Latinos. The holocaust was a european atrocity and does not constitute a MODERN barrier to Jewish Americans in the same way as black Americans face racial barriers. How about you just look up the names of the 2 economists - it's not hard. A CV is basically a resume for a job application. Look up the investigation it reveals the reality of implicit bias. Can we please not get into this ridiculous "name game". Don't deny that it is easier to tell if someone is black than to tell that someone is Jewish. Also, Black people face more racial barriers than Jews in the USA - don't even try to deny that. I can't even believe that you suggested minorities should change their names. Seriously? I'm not even going to explain how dumb that is - it's so self-evident. Your flippant remarks about the triviality of the racism to Latinos are inexcusable. Latinos face many racial barriers in the US. That's why they are poorer and more likely to be jailed than their white counterparts. How dare you suggest that they should just "tolerate" racial abuse and discrimination. You seem to just be ok with inequality don't you? Whether black people are more likely to get locked up is irrelevant. What matters is that it is a fact that they are more likely to be locked up (whether their own fault or not) and that this impacts their results. Of course they get special admissions treatment - that is because they face so much discrimination that the "special treatment" is trying to reverse it. What in the world does the "emotional" side of girls have to do with anxiety that the black community faces (which is more than white people)? https://www.nbcnews.com... You are shockingly lazy with your sources. The University did not "find" that black people were genetically less intelligent. What the outdated report did was source older even less reliable studies of very dubious psychologists. The report studied the work of Jensen - an American psychologist. Who published a study in 1969 (almost 50 years ago) arguing (in a time of immense racial hatred) that POCs were less intelligent to white people due to genetics. This is such rubbish. It has been debunked so many times I can't count. This kind of pseudoscientific nonsense is used by the alt-right to justify their prejudiced and racist policies Craig Venter, the American biologist who led the effort to decode the human genome, responds to claims of a link between race and intelligence by declaring: "There is no basis in scientific fact or in the human genetic code for the notion that skin colour will be predictive of intelligence." In fact, there is more genetic variation within races than there is between races. Humans are genetically homogeneous and the idea that the 1 gene that codes for melanin causes more or less intelligence is just bad, fake science. Hundreds of genes are needed to increase intelligence and yet the code for increased melanin pigmentation is very simple. There is no way that genetic components are responsible for IQ difference and those who argue this (you being one of them) need to take a look in the mirror and admit that they're bigoted and frankly wrong. https://www.theguardian.com... Once again your ignorant bigotry continues when it comes to sexism. Y chromosomes do not code for personality! 1 chromosome is not enough genetic material to code for it. Society is undoubtedly the cause. We have culture which lowers and infantilises women and thus they are demotivated. It is no surprise that the gender pay gap exists and women are disadvantaged. AA solves the problem. And YES it does it by making women more common. That's the point. It puts more women into these positions who act as role models (Clinton) changing misconceptions about women. To conclude, my opponent has provided not 1 single argument for why AA doesn't work. All they have done is downplayed the prejudices of our society or simply denied the advantages that those not benefited by AA experience. They have cited outdated and unreliable sources and have made offensive, false and stupid assertions that it is the fault of POC or the fault of women or the fault of the poor. NO - it is society's fault. We need to grow up, recognise the inequality and fix it with AA.