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Bill: Affirmative Action Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Communist Party of Saridan
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: March 2228
Description[?]:
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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 | 10:37:59, May 15, 2006 CET | From |  For the Division of Cheesecake Party | To | Debating the Affirmative Action Act |
| Message | Reverse racism is racism nonetheless. We have to create equality, not try to balance out certain issues by just creating more. |
| Date | 05:55:49, May 16, 2006 CET | From | Communist Party of Saridan | To | Debating the Affirmative Action Act |
| Message | This is not "racism". This is not the government saying...Hey, women and minorities are genetically better than the male majority population! We should hire them, and screw the rest! This is attempting to equalize the number of people hired by the businesses of the nation, so that the businesses of the nation will not use secret racism in their hiring policies to discriminate against women and minorities. |
| Date | 08:20:30, May 16, 2006 CET | From | For the Division of Cheesecake Party | To | Debating the Affirmative Action Act |
| Message | Everyone seems to have a different idea as to what racism is. What I meant was that, by forcing people to hire certain numbers of specific races/minorities/genders, it forces the idea of racism/sexism in the work place instead of hiring the better worker. Effieciency is key in a money based country. Abolish money, and you have an equal work place. So instead of trying to even the tables or what not, lets just get rid of money. |
| Date | 08:31:01, May 16, 2006 CET | From | Communist Party of Saridan | To | Debating the Affirmative Action Act |
| Message | It does not force companies to avoid hiring the better worker, it forces them to stop overlooking the better worker, who are often the women and minorities who are not hired because of racist/sexist reasons. |
| Date | 11:41:33, May 16, 2006 CET | From | Anti-Revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Affirmative Action Act |
| Message | That is total trash. Affirmative action does not get companies to stop overlooking the better worker, which is a rather odd comment to make, and seems to suggest that women and minorities are better workers at everything? Affirmative active is discrimination, and it is worse than 'traditional' discrimination, because the government backs it and uses taxpayers money to fund discrimination, which can never be right |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 221 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 431 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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