My views on Affirmative Action: If there were no reason to place a policy into the United
States law systems which guarantees that people of color, females, and other
minorities will have equality in the workplace and in higher education, then
there will be no affirmative Action. People were being discriminated against
and denied rights to essential duties of life. How else should America make up
for it’s lost cause? Affirmative action derived from that very place where
guilt did, and opened up opportunities to those discriminated against.
On page 225 in Why
Affirmative Action is Immoral, by Louis P. Pojman quotes Dr. Martin L. King
with the mounting the hoarse phrase. Pojman made an analogy to that saying that
we, the US, are mounting the horse for minorities to obtain jobs, but we are
falling off of the other side because white males aren’t able to get any jobs.
America mounted the hoarse in their hopes of keeping African American’s and
females (in civil movement times) oppressed when they created the quarter of a
person law, Jim Crow laws, anti-women voting rights, and all kinds of other
madness. Thus, they fell off on the other side when they started realizing that
people needed aid to survive (such as welfare, housing assistance, WIC, and all
other programs the nation complain about having to pay), that they couldn’t
obtain without a job. They also realized they fell off on the other side when
they realized that its citizens aren’t all voting due to deprivation of even
wanting certain people to know about politics and therefore keeping them
uneducated about making changes in society.
As stated in her article, Judith Jarvis Thomson touched upon
three debts that she explains should be paid back: debts of gratitude, debts of
creditors, and debts to someone you have wronged.
So what is preferential hiring? According to Judith Jarvis
Thomson, it is the feeling of wanting to give a person a chance because he or
she has been deprived in a sense that the giver feels he/she must help put back
(377). But isn’t the definition of preference the choosing of one’s liking?
Affirmative Action does not create preferential hiring, but probably guilt
hiring. Prejudice people will prefer to hire who they want to. People who
understands the law will hire someone because they feel that that person should
have a chance at doing something he/she wants to.
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