Affirmative Action

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This paper discusses that foremost governmental and economic institutions are besieged with demands for affirmative action, the policies designed to correct persistent racial and ethnic inequalities in promotion, hiring, and accessing higher education. The author points out that a major argument of those who oppose affirmative action is against the use of "quotas" to effect equality in the workplace, where capable people are neglected at the expense of less capable or similarly capable, politically correct candidates. The paper stresses that a serious limitation of the arguments opposed to affirmative action is that they fail to consider a remedy for the injustices that permeate the workplace.

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"However, one of the distinct limitations of those who promote affirmative action programs do not recognize how these programs can belittle if not downright insult minorities who excel despite race or ethnic classifications as part of some EOE initiative. In effect, we could ask, why should the measure of achievement be a group norm? For instance, Asians do better than whites on math SAT's; should whites who outperform the white group norm be given special preference? Don't these types of arguments made by proponents of affirmative action that some groups are inherently inferior in certain areas and that these programs will accomplish nothing more than a simple masking of the results."

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