Issue
:Affirmative Action
IS
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION A GOOD IDEA?
Pin-Point
SUMMARY
Prop
There
is Prejudice about Affirmative Action (are all incorrect)
3
Prejudices
u Affirmative
Action is anti-merit
u Affirmative
Action is regressive
u Affirmative
Action replaces
higher-ability individuals for better groups with less capable individuals from
disadvantaged groups
è Unfair
for the people living in the present
è What
is true equality?
ü Isn’t
it providing everyone with the same start line?
ü But if
‘same’ start line is impossible at the first place, shouldn’t there be some
adjustment?
è Although
there might be anti-merit in a short perspective, it encourages social equality
and the will to work hard (the inferior groups) :: Proper Compensation about
the past should be done
u There
is an important distinction between "equality-in-law" and
"equality-in-fact"
è When
legal equality is not matched by substantive equality on the ground,
policymakers might need to redress this imbalance through special, targeted
measures.
Opp.
u There
is a use of race preference in the admission of students
è should
be rejected on the purely practical ground
è it
harms preferred students by placing them in academic settings
ü they are
not fully qualified and
ü they would
not otherwise be admitted.
ü Goes
Against MERITOCRACY
ü Opposes
to interests of both the “employing group” and the employee group (the NOT
inferior group), and this is unfair
u Why is
it unfair?
è Just
because of what their ancestors had done(had experienced) centuries ago
è Are these
people responsible for what their ancestors had done in the past?
u There
is no proof that exempting members of some racial groups from requirements
applicable to others will actually dissolve the damage that these people of the
inferior group has received
u Race
preference is obviously inconsistent with the American ideal!!
è all
persons are equal before the law and are to be treated as individuals, not as
members of racial groups.
è But Affirmative
Action completely goes against this idea
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