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Affirmative Action
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Controversy has always surrounded affirmative action (the policies that can potentially "counter the ways in which factors such as class, race, gender, and disabilities… [can] impede equal access and opportunity" ) and its practical application: Whether or not the principles behind it are justified, if the good consequences make up for the bad ones, et cetera. In this particular paper, the scope will be narrowed down to two arguments on the issue-- the equal opportunity argument and the discrimination argument -- relevant to the affirmative action issue.
The former, the equal opportunity argument, relies on the notion that every person deserves equal opportunities to things such as jobs and education; however, currently there is a pervasive lack of equal opportunity due to institutional structures that obstruct openings, but affirmative action can help promote equal opportunity "for people who continue to face institutional obstacles…" by "leveling the playing field." The latter, the discriminatory argument, makes the case that affirmative action is inherently discriminatory since it relies on making distinctions between race, class, gender and the like (those who the equal opportunity argument would say "face institutional obstacles") and that discrimination in general is bad.
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Title: Affirmative Action
Words: 887
Rating: None
Pages: 3.5
submitted by: singhue
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