I have a question for minorities, is it wrong to accept positive

>>16854307
What's "positive discrimination"?

>>16854308
Special treatment

>>16854311
Depends on the treatment I guess. I mean if you could be more specific. I mean I've been the only black person in a whole department before. Is that special treatment or do you mean like people getting promotions?

>>16854321
Well to be fair I wasn't op responding to that. I see the question as yes like say ur black and u get promotions just cuz ur black that would be a good example.

>>16854327
Those are usually token moments when the company is embroiled in a racist incident.

>>16854327
I personally feel like it's wrong. It's wrong from both sides. It's wrong to accept it and it is wrong to offer it to me just because I'm black. I rather my work speak for it's self.

>>16854343
Forgot to add my experience is that when that happens it's not a real promotion. You get promoted to some bullshit made up job like head of urban development.

That's not positive discrimination.
Positive discrimination would be hiring more minorities under the illusion that they really are more qualified, the same way negative discrimination would be refusing to hire them under the illusion that they'll do poorly simply because of their race.

Affirmative action is simply hiring more minorities because they're qualified enough and it's been decided that minorities are needed, making their minority status an extra qualification.
Just like a hot girl will get hired for a counter position over a fat hairy guy of equal skill because customers prefer dealing with hot girls.

There are many factors in who to hire outside of their skill level.

>>16854307
I think positive discrimination is a necessary evil because there's still a lot of inequality happening (in the workplace etc). As much as everyone nowadays claims to be accepting and not prejudiced, I still get a lot of people who just judge me based on my ethnicity, and I end up either having to prove myself to these people, or just leaving them be with their narrow point of view.

Personally I hate getting special treatment because it means people are only basing this off my ethnicity and not my actually personality, skill etc (for example, when applying for uni or for jobs).