Firefighters Appear at Sotomayor Hearings

A group of firefighters from New Haven, Connecticut, made their first appearance at Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. The firefighters were at the center of a controversial reverse discrimination case heard by the judge. (July 15)

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[stickcult]

exactly, its discrimination no matter who the victim is

[StewieSwan]

I HATE the term "reverse discrimination"

[UltraProle21]

funny how asians have no problem outscoring whites in tests that are supposedly biased toward whites

[srinivaskari]

This discrimination that the majorities face because of "affirmative action" is reverse discrimination

[srinivaskari]

the meaning of the term reverse discrimination is this: The minorities use the argument that they were discriminated against centuries ago to get the "affirmative action" policy heavily biased towards them. They now have seats reserved in universities, government jobs, police departments. Since most of the seats and jobs are reserved for the minorites, the majorities consequently are discriminated against.

[ImDavidGurney]

When Sotomayor set the long jump record,the judges didn't throw out the result because too few whites did well.To each his own.

[duneranger]

@lvll138inrs you're kidding right?...oh wait why am I listening to someone who plays runescape lol....

[lvll138inrs]

theres no such thing as reverse discrimination.

[ashken79]

Affirmative action=Blatant racism!

[Erika445566]

@StewieSwan I hate it because it implies whites are already racist.

[duneranger]

@kmg501 How am I wrong? Besides Iraq and Vietnam our Wars have been all for humanitarian reason which we have answered the call of the world community to help. Bases closed? Do you have any idea how many bases we closed in the last 20 years? Well over a hundred (plus even more downsized). The reason why foreign bases are slower to close, its because the governments and people of the those countries want us to stay (prime examples Germany/Japan). Economic reasons which come full circle to help us