LogFAQs > #984034547

In theory, that's how it should be - no special treatment on the grounds of race / etc, it's purely about how qualified, reliable and hardworking someone is. The specific policies being quoted here absolutely are discriminatory. But in practice, you know damn well that what these people really want is no one but white guys having the jobs, and they won't stop at just "can't give others special treatment". It's kind of unfortunate there isn't any serious political force out there that actually wants to just put a stop to discrimination of this kind - only two sides that each want different groups to be the beneficiary of it. (And perhaps, that makes it little surprise that, forced to choose between one or the other, a lot of people would go with the one that at least favors the group they're part of. Because there's no fair option; only "unfair option that helps me" or "unfair option that hurts me".)