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Bill: An End to Discrimination!
Details
Submitted by[?]: Kommunisticheskiy Komitet Rabochih
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2595
Description[?]:
| As we are approaching the 27th century, we must finally smash prejudice, before it smashes us. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Positive discrimination.
Old value:: No form of positive discrimination is permitted.
Current: The government does not regulate hiring policies.
Proposed: The government sets compulsory quotas for hiring women, minorities and marginalized groups.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:02:53, June 20, 2008 CET | From |  Family and Tradition Party (disbanded) | To | Debating the An End to Discrimination! |
| Message | Positive discrimination and affirmative action are two of the most manifestations of political correctness known to mankind. These hiring policies defy all logic and common sense, are destructive to businesses and the economy, and most importantly, they are unfair to people with skill and ability who cannot get the job they deserve because of the government's middle-class guilt. People should be hired based on merit - not based on whether or not they are a minority person. This is social engineering of the worst form. This is absolutely disgusting. |
| Date | 03:03:55, June 20, 2008 CET | From | Kommunisticheskiy Komitet Rabochih | To | Debating the An End to Discrimination! |
| Message | So you're a racist then? |
| Date | 06:51:21, June 20, 2008 CET | From | Family and Tradition Party (disbanded) | To | Debating the An End to Discrimination! |
| Message | Again, the Socialdemokraticheskaya Partiya relies on politically correct buzz-words like 'racist' to form their main response to any opposition that may arise against their obsessively socialist policies. However, because we do not recognize that such a phenomenon as 'racism', or 'sexism', or 'homophobia' actually exists, such intended insults are of no offence to us whatsoever, and are absolutely no deterrant. All of these 'isms' and 'phobias' were invented by socialists to silence dissent to the agenda of 'equality', and to justify the implimentation of this abstract notion of 'equality', that never truly existed by nature. People aren't born equal. Cultures are different, sexualities are different, and genders are different. Each different human being is bestowed by birth with certain traits, qualities, tendancies, and natural skills, according to their gender and race. It isn't 'racist' or 'sexist' to acknowledge these natural differences - to suggest that perhaps people are not, in fact, equal, and to advocate that the government recognize and cater for these differences accordingly. It's merely common sense and realism. Positive discrimination is just another mindless manifestation of this politically correct phenomenon that constantly wants to deny what exists by nature - that is, that people are not equal. Like every other politically correct agenda, it strives to achieve an artificial, abstract state of equality by levelling the playing field for those they deem the underdog. The middle-class guilt of socialists drive them to constantly root for whichever minorities they believe to be 'oppressed', or 'discriminated' against, or 'disadvantaged, or 'underprivelaged', often at the expense of everyone and everything else. Again, the Family and Tradition Party does not believe in such things as 'racism', 'sexism' and 'homophobia', in that they have been constructed by the politically correct regime in the recent era as a form of social engineering. But even if we did believe 'racism' existed, we would suggest that we are by no means 'racist' at all - we merely look for what is true and what is right. In this circumstance, what is right is that people are hired by employers based on their own merit, and based only on this. |
| Date | 18:19:43, June 20, 2008 CET | From | Kommunisticheskiy Komitet Rabochih | To | Debating the An End to Discrimination! |
| Message | Racism doesn't exist, and yet you support such abstract notions of social engineering such as culture? |
| Date | 02:09:25, June 21, 2008 CET | From | Family and Tradition Party (disbanded) | To | Debating the An End to Discrimination! |
| Message | Culture is not a product of social engineering - it is a result of shared heritage, kinship, nationality, traditions. If there is anything in society that is concrete, real, and far from being abstract, it is culture and its societal institutions. Culture has been ingrained in this countries history for generation after generation, but political correctness and equality are abstractions developed in much more recent times, which have no foundation in anything concrete - no foundation in our history, traditions, or religions. That which does not have a firm root in concrete institutions is merely an untested, ideological theory. Equality is the best example of this. |
| Date | 09:18:27, June 21, 2008 CET | From | East Trigunia Company | To | Debating the An End to Discrimination! |
| Message | We oppose compulsary quotas. So, for example, Limpet Oil would have to employ an untrained woman applicant over a highly trained, experienced male applicant because of some ridiculous quota. Stupidity. Madness. Idiocy. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 150 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 374 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 31 |
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