From the article of 'Petrel'
No.606 / November 17, 1996

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One important inhabitant vote was done in the California state though it hid oneself in a brilliant President United States election and did not stand out so much.

It is "Professional position 209", that is, it is a bill to which "Abolition of the minority preferential treatment plan" is requested.

The civil rights movements were uplifted in the United States in 1960's. As the one result and "Affirmative action" ( "Aggressive measures" to consider special to minority and woman by employment and education ) that provided for "Preferential treatment" of the minority etc. was adopted. However, now, it became an age when it was criticized with "Reverse-discrimination" and the inhabitant vote on abolition was proposed.

In this state, When the federation government and the municipality employ the staff or is ordered by a public business, or, when the selective examination of the university and the teacher is adopted, it is necessary to set the frame so that the minority etc. may always occupy a constant rate and give preferential treatment to special of make the race and sex the standard of the judgment. Therefore, the composition rate of the minority such as teaching the staff and the university rises considerably relatively compared with the population ratio.

Because the inhabitant of 55% almost agreed with abolition as a result of the inhabitant vote, the result of civil rights movements are in an extremely precarious position. Because the population of the white is 57% ( small number of whites are already sects in a large city in the loss or San Francisco, etc. ), the ratio of this abolition agreement is near the population ratio of the white, but of course, it is not particularly simple.

An opposite van to the preferential treatment plan is "White middle class" ( this hierarchy contains the factory worker in the United States. ) and there are a lot of people who agree with abolition also in the minority.

For instance, receiving the treatment of the disadvantage compared with the Negro when the student of an excellent Asia system enters goes out naturally and repulsion is strengthened, abundant Negroes, that is, "Negro of the middle class" agrees with the abolition of this bill, too, because they are regrettable in the desire that they were able to enter the university and succeeded by this bill.

Even the minority preferential treatment plan has people who emphasize the same measures that even it is exactly discriminatory while there are people who emphasize the measures fought against discrimination.

It is evaluated that the same one is quite opposite. This might jeer civicism person's delusion that they think whether to solve all difficulties and social problems if it is shouted, "Discriminating opposite".

The consciousness worker supports the affirmative action, but he only does it so in a constant condition no absolute one and nor clearly confirming the limit and the fantasy opposite.

A bourgeois, liberal cheating the affirmative action is clear from a thorough democratic viewpoint or socialistic viewpoint. That is, protection against them only appears assuming that the treatment is specially right because this society does the woman and the minority openly in "Discrimination". Therefore, discriminatory essence of this bill and non-democratic essence are clear. It discriminates man by the class by character and "Race", therefore, it is extreme own contradiction that anti-discrimination ideologist's civicism person and liberals openly support and promote this bill.

They without relation in Consistent thought and standpoint, are the care none at all.

It is the relative one that this society is "Discrimination" compared with the minority, that is, it is due to the condition. It might be a lot when people of the minority are adopted by neither the teacher nor the civil servant -- because people of the minority that reaches at the level to pass the examination are relatively few.

The condition changes if the education level in the minority rises even in this case, and the differences from whites are canceled. The preferential treatment plan will become the one of famous innocence or becomes harmful if becoming so.

As we know well, a typical bourgeois democracy expresses equality by which character and race etc. is not distinguished -- formal equality in case of that --, therefore, the affirmative action is "different" in it.

Of course, the problem is not a problem of formal democracy but a practical, class, and hierarchical interests. Therefore, even the violence riot was generated about this problem, too ( In the campus of a California state university, the student of the agreement collides with the inhabitant proposal with an opposite student to it. The police squad also might mobilize it and fire away a lot of tear-gas bomb shells at them. )

The law by which the service of welfare and the medical treatment is refused has been approved to an unlawful emigrant by the inhabitant vote in California four years ago. The law exerted a big influence on all US and a part of the content is taken into "Welfare and reformation" method which Clinton passed in September.

The inhabitant vote on California at this time is about to give the impact to the entire United States in no small way though it is possible to say from this example and become strong more and more of similar movement.

The result of the civil rights movements in 1960's is not only being denied. It disclosed an essential limit, because it began to be roasted the confrontation of white's worker and other colored races' workers and the man and women, intensified, and was bright in a sense. At least, it will be not able to be said that it was a plus to the unity of the worker of the entire United States and the development of the class consideration.

It is discussed lively that 'is it discrimination to treat the woman and the minority, etc. equally to other people' or 'Is it discrimination to execute some preferential treatment?'. Such dilemmas cannot be avoided under capitalism. Hypocritical liberals exalt provide improvement principle under the cheer of the discrimination abolition, as a result, they said whether liberating the woman and the minority approached. However it nothing but clarified contradiction and the difficulty in original of capitalism more and more.

Only socialism can overcome such dilemmas. Because, socialism declares that the constituent member in all the societies is equal and becoming independent as the worker, and places this principle in the basis related to all the societies. Liberating of work from exploitation and rule of the capital -- Even this is an essence problem.