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Bill: The Positive Discrimination Act of 2634
Details
Submitted by[?]: Socialist Party of Aldegar
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: November 2634
Description[?]:
| The government must ensure that the future is free of discrimination. We believe that if the workplace resembles what is really society, barriers will come down, and races will come together, and we will all wake up and be in an Aldegar without racism and discrimination. Now is not the time for corporations bickering about pennies, it is time for wounds to be healed and the nation to come together as one. |
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 encourages positive discrimination and enforces it for government hiring.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 15:23:26, September 09, 2008 CET | From | Green Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the The Positive Discrimination Act of 2634 |
| Message | "The government must ensure that the future is free of discrimination" : Isn't affirmative action a form of discrimination, in itself? "We believe that if the workplace resembles what is really society, barriers will come down, and races will come together, and we will all wake up and be in an Aldegar without racism and discrimination." : For the workplace to resemble what society is, we have to let it be run by society! That is the only way barriers will come down; as barriers in the society come down too. "it is time for wounds to be healed and the nation to come together as one." : Heal the wounds and inflict another one? |
| Date | 23:08:39, September 09, 2008 CET | From | Zoroastrian People's Party | To | Debating the The Positive Discrimination Act of 2634 |
| Message | Before we could vote for this we ned to know who it is aimed at. Which group in historically tolerant Aldegar needs this? |
| Date | 03:19:49, September 10, 2008 CET | From | Pantheism Capitalistic Party UCF | To | Debating the The Positive Discrimination Act of 2634 |
| Message | The government shouldn't tell people how to think. |
| Date | 03:20:39, September 11, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party of Aldegar | To | Debating the The Positive Discrimination Act of 2634 |
| Message | How exactly is this legislation "telling people how to think" Nowhere does it say that one cannot have biased thoughts, or even express them constantly at a loud volume if they wish, it just requires employers to give historically disadvantaged groups a fair shot. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 282 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 442 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 25 |
| Random fact: Real-life religions should not be referenced in Particracy. Terra has its own religions, many of which mirror real-life ones. See: http://particracy.wikia.com/wiki/Illustrated_Catalogue_of_Religion |
| Random quote: "An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." - H. L. Mencken |