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Originally Posted by deecee
No more misplaced that then games with predominantly white athletes get mostly to all white officials. What you are defending is affirmative action. Which I think is a bunch of baloney.
For the record I am not white, nor am I black or Hispanic. Its like saying that being a Black, female, and gay is hitting the genetic jackpot in officiating.
If the deciding factor over who gets selected is race/ethnicity/gender then that's just hog wash. I would like all qualified officials to be entered into a lottery and 3 names selected at random, and 1 for the alternative. However large that pool be is up to the deciding bodies. But it's not more short sighted and/or misplaced then going overboard with ones new found freedom/equality at the expense of exactly what they were fighting in the first place.
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I do defend affirmative action and would welcome an intelligent debate on the policy, not that this is the right forum for that. And since you thinks it's "baloney" and "hogwash" I'll just agree to disagree with you on that here since I doubt it would be a constructive conversation. If being being black, female, and/or gay is hitting the "genetic jackpot" in officiating then I'm sure there are other areas in life that go the other direction on that. I can think of a few.
That said, doing the bolded would run into the same problems. The grievances would just move to deciding who makes up the pool of "all qualified" officials.
Officiating and evaluating it is very subjective by nature. There will always be multiple considerations to be made in assigning games. And there will always be people who are bothered by, and disagree with those considerations. Whether they are related to race, gender, sexual preference or other things such as personal relationships, connections, or even who and what people use to judge/determine who is qualified. And the validity of their judgement itself.
And that is where I think the words of Rich are wise. In controlling what you can control and not whining about others.
Of course, there are times when "whining" is justified (depending on your perspective). Fortunately, in those instances it usually works itself out. Unfortunately it can take a long time to do so.