Against Affirmative Action

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This paper provides a well researched argument against the policy of affirmative action in the United States. The author argues that whatever genuine aims and goals the policy had when it started, affirmative action today fails to realize its goals. In fact, the paper presents evidence that affirmative action has actually worked in opposition to its goals.

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"Affirmative action has created the perception that someone owes disadvantaged members of our society not only a living but a virtually problem-free existence. The only thing society should owe them, however, is an equal opportunity to become educated or employed. If the beneficiaries of that opportunity fail to make the most of it, then it is no more society's fault than if a white male fails to take advantage of his opportunity."

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