I think you are underestimating the potential benefit of diversity. You'll have to talk to employers about that though; I'm not the one who makes that decision, I'm just explaining the logic of it.
If you don't think many women would have the merit for a front-line military job, why not make women take all the same tests as men? Then you'll know, and you'll be sure that you've only got the very best. I'm not denying a lot of women wouldn't be able to do it, but why stop those who can from trying? Why fail them by default? You keep saying you want merit, but you're not prepared to stand by it if you think women should be failed by default.
Sexual harassment in the military isn't a reason to keep women out of the military; it's a reason to kick sexual harassment out of the military. Keeping women out is shrinking away from tackling a real problem; a disgusting problem that we should be tackling.
Black people vote in a huge majority for Democratic candidates even if the Democratic candidate is white. 88% of black voters voted for John Kerry in 2004, and he was a white candidate. The only reason it was as many as voted for Obama in 2008 is the same reason that John Kerry got fewer votes across the board from people of all groups; he genuinely wasn't judged to be as good a candidate. Race isn't the issue; it's that black people are more likely to be poor in America than white people, and poor people are more likely to vote Democrat. It's the wealth gap that is the issue, not race.
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I think you are underestimating the potential benefit of diversity. You'll have to talk to employers about that though; I'm not the one who makes that decision, I'm just explaining the logic of it.
If you don't think many women would have the merit for a front-line military job, why not make women take all the same tests as men? Then you'll know, and you'll be sure that you've only got the very best. I'm not denying a lot of women wouldn't be able to do it, but why stop those who can from trying? Why fail them by default? You keep saying you want merit, but you're not prepared to stand by it if you think women should be failed by default.
Sexual harassment in the military isn't a reason to keep women out of the military; it's a reason to kick sexual harassment out of the military. Keeping women out is shrinking away from tackling a real problem; a disgusting problem that we should be tackling.
Black people vote in a huge majority for Democratic candidates even if the Democratic candidate is white. 88% of black voters voted for John Kerry in 2004, and he was a white candidate. The only reason it was as many as voted for Obama in 2008 is the same reason that John Kerry got fewer votes across the board from people of all groups; he genuinely wasn't judged to be as good a candidate. Race isn't the issue; it's that black people are more likely to be poor in America than white people, and poor people are more likely to vote Democrat. It's the wealth gap that is the issue, not race.