Will positive discrimination ever lead to 100% equality?
No and the reason is that positive discrimination is a form of patronage. Real power remains in the hands of those who offer these hand ups to favoured groups. Real power is taken not given. Nobody respects the authority of any “leader” who got their position through patronage whether that be through the old boys network or through positive discrimination. They are both illegitimate routes to power. The third route to power is through genuine meritocracy and this comes by way of equal opportunity. It should be accepted that equal opportunities will not create any kind of equality other than opportunity. I can’t relate to the entitlement mentality that some feminists and other groups have.
Discrimination is not positive. It’s amazing how enduringly unpopular an idea that is – there always seems to be some reason why discriminating against people is actually ‘helping’ them or society. People of all colors, creeds and classes are easily tempted into thinking that they deserve special consideration, it seems.
Ha Ha Ha! There’s no such thing as ‘positive’ discrimination. There is discrimination, and there is equality. So no, discrimination can never go close to equality. Funny though, how we consider discrimination against men as ‘positive’ and something to be encouraged, while discrimination against women as something that must never be. Either way, it just takes us further from equality. Equality involves giving women equal opportunity to get jobs, not giving them the job itself.
