Re:What Happens When You Ban Affirmative Action in College A...
by kuschku on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @04:13PM
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Actually, Germany has been replacing Affirmative Action in most areas in the past years with purely random, or purely achievement-based systems.
Due to the simple fact that hiring people based on direct affirmative action violates the constitution.
Even the famous "womens quota" in Germany is just a quota that 30% of each gender have to be represented in a company’s board.
(The official statement of the constitutional court regarding affirmative action, which is called "positive discrimination" here, was that "even positive discrimination is, as the name says, still discrimination")
Due to the simple fact that hiring people based on direct affirmative action violates the constitution.
Even the famous "womens quota" in Germany is just a quota that 30% of each gender have to be represented in a company’s board.
(The official statement of the constitutional court regarding affirmative action, which is called "positive discrimination" here, was that "even positive discrimination is, as the name says, still discrimination")