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 @9FPWVG3 from Illinois  agreed…3yrs3Y

Affirmative Action continues to protect people from continued discrimination as much as possible, and taking it away pretends that racism is not still prevalent just as it was when Affirmative Action was first put into place.

 @8WPLNRV from Colorado  disagreed…2yrs2Y

pretty sure this promotes racism

 @B8PC6ZTRepublican  from California  disagreed…2mos2MO

Affirmative Action programs only strengthen racism. The idea that these programs should use race as a basis of deciding who should receive favorable treatment promotes the idea that racial differences actually are significant and affect a person's abilities, which goes completely against the idea of racial equality. In addition, Affirmative Action forces identity-based employment rather than merit-based employment, which harms the quality of the consumer's experience, and on a larger scale, the economy. This could lead to even deeper racism because it can create the subconscious impression that white males are more skilled than females and people of color. Affirmative Action isn't really a way of solving the problem; it only shovels gunpowder onto the fire in hopes of concealing it.

 @9FD3HHWagreed…3yrs3Y

Right now minority groups don't receive equal treatment even though everyone is equal. That means we have to do something about it.

 @B8PC6ZTRepublican  from California  disagreed…2mos2MO

Affirmative Action is not the solution to this problem. Affirmative Action programs will only deepen racism because it creates the subconscious impression that white males are the most skilled out of all groups because they will be the group with the highest standards for merit-based employment while other groups rely on their social background to carry them to employment. Equality cannot be created through means of discrimination.

 @9F8P35C from Michigan  agreed…3yrs3Y

Treating everyone the same should not be a challenge, the background of people's childhood should not define how you treat them, instead it should be based off the person they are now.

 @B8PC6ZTRepublican  from California  disagreed…2mos2MO

I think all of us agree on that; however, the problem with Affirmative Action is that it goes against that very principle. Affirmative Action promotes employment based on race and gender rather than employment based on merit.

 @Brandonnoe84Libertarian  from Colorado  disagreed…3yrs3Y

I don't believe forcing payment to others would go well, if it is just given then nothing is learned.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Elizabeth Warren Walks Back Murder Comments

Congressional Democrats broadly denounced the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Friday morning, after Republicans started accusing Sen. Elizabeth Warren of excusing violence.“No one's condoning this,” said Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.). “Violence never is the right answer for anything. And it was a horrible murder, a tragic loss for his family.” Warren this week condemned the shooting, but added that people “can be pushed only so far.”"We'll say it over and over," Warren said on MSNBC’S “The ReidOut.” " Violence is never the answer. This guy [Luigi Mangione] gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."In a statement to POLITICO, Warren said, “Violence is never the answer. Period. I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.” Top Republicans denounced Warren's comments and the walked-back rhetoric, with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) calling it “inappropriate and dangerous.”Some House Democrats asked about the incident on Thursday pivoted the conversation to discuss policy options on health care or gun safety.“I don't really know that this is really a space that Congress normally weighs in on,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). “But at the end of the day, I think it’s an opportunity, because now people are talking about health care and to talk about the fact that this industry has honestly not been as helpful as it could be.”“Violence is never the answer,” said Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.). “We know that there are people suffering, there’s great challenges in healthcare. There's great challenges, and people have, in fact, been wronged, but a process of governance is the way to address that, not violence.”And Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) who denounced the murder, said the killer should be prosecuted and that “I do know that allegedly a ghost gun was used, and we should also ban ghost guns. There's no reason for them beyond the streets.”

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Israeli Bombings Kill 2,300 In Lebanon in 3 weeks

Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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