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| Anyone else get visited by the census police?
Posted: 9/28/2009 8:49:17 PM |
LOL... ( I assume your comment was kidding). And if you were serious, as we're all equal it doesn't matter if you're part of a minority or not.
 ....somewhat kidding. However, it's a fact. Apparently it does matter if you're a minority because there are a number of programs for minorities. There's affirmative action quotas and guaranteed political representation. Thus I think it does matter if you are part of a minority. | |
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| Anyone else get visited by the census police?
Posted: 9/29/2009 2:41:42 AM |
There's affirmative action quotas and guaranteed political representation. Thus I think it does matter if you are part of a minority.
Ya, those damn minorties are taking over everything.You'd think they have the impression they are just as good as the majority. | |
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| Anyone else get visited by the census police?
Posted: 9/29/2009 7:29:29 AM | I was concerned, when I posted that, someone would take it off topic and this would get into minority bashing. That wasn't my intent, so let's not go there. 
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| Anyone else get visited by the census police?
Posted: 9/29/2009 8:37:24 AM | somewhat kidding. However, it's a fact. Apparently it does matter if you're a minority because there are a number of programs for minorities. There's affirmative action quotas and guaranteed political representation. Thus I think it does matter if you are part of a minority.
Sure, but with a little checking I'm sure everybody can prove they're part of a minority in some way. Your blood type is B+ ? Only about 17% of the population has that type; you're aminority. You have an IQ above a certain score? You're a minority. Etc, etc.
Oh wait, even tho those examples do make you a minority, they aren't on the govt.'s list of "approved" minorities, sorry. Just like if you speak English and Spanish, or French and German you aren't ( according to the govt.) bilingual. A friend applied for a job in the healthcare industry & checked off the bilingual box but when they learned she spoke english & german she was told that even tho she speaks 2 languages she isn't bilingual. | |
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| Anyone else get visited by the census police?
Posted: 9/29/2009 8:41:34 AM |
Sure, but with a little checking I'm sure everybody can prove they're part of a minority in some way. Your blood type is B+ ? Only about 17% of the population has that type; you're aminority. You have an IQ above a certain score? You're a minority. Etc, etc.
Ok, I'll say visible minority.
You know exactly what I meant.
You're just trying to be a sh@t disturber and that would classify you as a troll since you're not from NS! | |
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| Anyone else get visited by the census police?
Posted: 9/29/2009 9:08:07 AM |
You're just trying to be a sh@t disturber and that would classify you as a troll since you're not from NS!
Maybe not aware of the sometimes silly POF rules, but he isn't neccesarily a troll.
Post #52 is somewhat trollish, but it's obvious sarcasm was missed, not surprisingly.
Only one group has truely benefitted from affirmative action programs, and that would be able bodied caucasian females. They tend to be overrepresented in most job categories, based on their availability within the general populous.
Look at middle management positions at most levels of government , and you'll likely find an abundance of caucasian females. | |
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| Anyone else get visited by the census police?
Posted: 9/29/2009 12:23:09 PM | I guess Road Tripping would have been a better description.
I got the sarcasm in #52, but was concerned it would have started something that it wasn't intended too.
I'll agree with your last statement after having worked for the gov't. | |
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| Anyone else get visited by the census police?
Posted: 9/29/2009 12:46:11 PM |
You're just trying to be a sh@t disturber and that would classify you as a troll since you're not from NS!
Oh sorry,I thought the census was nationwide, not just a NS practice. So questioning government's actions is sh@t disturbing? Guess that'd mean government actions are sh@t.
Ok, I'll say visible minority.
You know exactly what I meant.
I know what the government means by minority, but the government decides their own "definition" of what words & phrases mean. And as long as we sit quietly & allow them to do that it will continue, hence my bilingual example.
Dictionary says:
bilingual :
–adjective 1. able to speak two languages with the facility of a native speaker.
2. spoken, written, or containing similar information in two different languages: a bilingual dictionary; Public notices at the embassy are bilingual.
3. of, involving, or using two languages: a bilingual community; bilingual schools.
–noun 4. a bilingual person.
govt. says fluent in FRENCH & ENGLISH
minority: –noun 1. the smaller part or number; a number, part, or amount forming less than half of the whole.
2. a smaller party or group opposed to a majority, as in voting or other action.
3. a group differing, esp. in race, religion, or ethnic background, from the majority of a population
4. a member of such a group.
5. the state or period of being under the legal age of full responsibility.
–adjective 6. of or pertaining to a minority.
government has their list of who/what is aminority, the actual definition isn't important
equity: noun, plural -ties. 1. the quality of being fair or impartial; fairness; impartiality: the equity of Solomon.
2. something that is fair and just.
3. Law. a. the application of the dictates of conscience or the principles of natural justice to the settlement of controversies.
b. a system of jurisprudence or a body of doctrines and rules developed in England and followed in the U.S., serving to supplement and remedy the limitations and the inflexibility of the common law.
c. an equitable right or claim.
d. an equity of redemption.
4. the monetary value of a property or business beyond any amounts owed on it in mortgages, claims, liens, etc.
5. Informal. ownership, esp. when considered as the right to share in future profits or appreciation in value.
6. the interest of the owner of common stock in a corporation.
7. (in a margin account) the excess of the market value of the securities over any indebtedness.
Govt says ( as in "employment equity") certain individuals/races/cultures are to be given preference when applying for jobs, by being given preference they are reversing the actual meaning of the word equity.
( I am not against trying to correct past hiring practices in such away, but butchering the language & redefing the meaning of words is wrong.... 1984's "newspeak" , people..)
And as another example the govt uses the term "justice system" when it reality it is the "legal system", justice does occasionally get delivered by it, but by chance not by design. | |
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