Affirmative action

I think affirmative action is immoral and that it shouldn’t to any extent be taken into consideration when it comes to hiring in the job market or accepting people to a school. Affirmative action may have been necessary ten, twenty, or fifty years ago, and some people may argue that it’s necessary today too but I don’t think it is. There’s still discrimination in the world today, but not as much as it was back then. I don’t agree with the backward looking justifications argument that minorities and women should get compensation for past injustices. Why should todays people “pay the cost” of our ancestors’ actions? Affirmative action may have helped a lot of minority people to get jobs and to have good lives, but I don’t think it’s fair that a person gets a job just based on the fact that he or she is black, Asian, woman, Jewish, etc. I think that the person who is best qualified for the job and makes the best impression in the job interview should get hired, regardless of race, color, sex, religion, or national origin. If that person is a black woman she should get the job, and if that person is a white man he should get the job. Imagine that you’re the manager of a company; you would try to get the best employees that you can get. If you then are looking for a new employee and you have to hire a person based on affirmative action, and not based on the qualifications for the job, it might mean that you can’t hire the best employee possible, which won’t benefit the company. And seen from the qualified person who doesn’t get the job’s view: he/she has been working hard in school for years to get a good education, and now he/she can’t get the dream job because the manager had to try to redress the injustices caused by the people who lived 100 years ago. Neither the manager nor the best-qualified applier benefits from this situation.