Affirmative Action

2.1) Why, can you tell me, that since you agree that diversity is needed, would affirmative action be unnecessary? You never addressed the reason why exactly you think affirmative action is unnecessary since you do seem to agree that diversity is needed 2.3) How come in the ideal version it is not necessary? Ideally, it wouldn't distort the merit of both participants. It would just get ALREADY QUALIFIED or potentially qualified participants, a push for assistance since they are naturally oppressed and since, as you agree with as well, that biases are built into the tests and exams etc. which prevents them from having a good opportunity to compete in the work force. Affirmative action is indeed still necessary The playing field is still far from level than 20 years ago. Women remain to acquire 77 cents for every male dollar, Black people perpetuate to have twice the unemployment rate of White people, twice the rate of infant mortality, and just over half the proportion of people who attend four years or more of college. Without affirmative action the percentage of Black students at many selective schools would drop to only 2% of the student body. This would surely obviate Black access to top universities and severely restrict progress toward racial equality. http://www.understandingprejudice.org... "Here's what affirmative action is: A policy and programme adopted in many regions of the world to encourage employers and educational institutions to consider the history of discrimination against certain classes of people when it comes to admission and hiring decisions. Such policies usually cover women, people of color/nonwhite people, and people with disabilities. The goal of affirmative action is to counteract the effects of centuries of discrimination to create more opportunities for oppressed groups of people by not shutting them out of education and employment opportunities, acknowledging that prejudices are often deeply internalised and people can't overcome them by sheer force of will. Here's what it isn't: A demand to always hire/admit the marginalised person, no matter what." http://disabledfeminists.com... 3.1) While I do agree that revising the tests and exams by providing a standard starting point might able to work, Affirmative Action does not distract the problem, but provides a temporary fix to a huge problem that cannot be fixed very easily. Affirmative action also addresses that there is a problem that needs to be fixed 3.2) Their foundation is weak because of complications that white privileged kids never had to face. Affirmative Action gives students with a weak foundation, the chance to rise up to their potential by giving them the tools to rise to it instead of not admitting them because of their weak foundation. They shouldn't just give up on them by automatically assume that the students are incapable of anything because of their test scores, which as you agreed are clearly biased, or their background and difficult history of prejudice. 3.3) "The problem with this myth is that it uses the same word -- discrimination -- to describe two very different things. Job discrimination is grounded in prejudice and exclusion, whereas affirmative action is an effort to overcome prejudicial treatment through inclusion. The most effective way to cure society of exclusionary practices is to make special efforts at inclusion, which is exactly what affirmative action does. The logic of affirmative action is no different than the logic of treating a nutritional deficiency with vitamin supplements. For a healthy person, high doses of vitamin supplements may be unnecessary or even harmful, but for a person whose system is out of balance, supplements are an efficient way to restore the body's balance." http://www.understandingprejudice.org... 4.1) Yes I would like further explanations. There are plenty of myths about how Affirmative Action doesn't address the real problem. Here's an example: Myth: A large percentage of White workers will lose out if affirmative action is perpetuated. Regime statistics do not support this myth. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, there are 2.6 million unemployed Black civilians and 114 million employed White civilians. Thus, even if every unemployed Black worker in the Amalgamated States were to displace a White worker, only 2% of Whites would be affected. Furthermore, affirmative action pertains only to job-qualified applicants, so the actual percentage of affected Whites would be even more diminutively minuscule. The main sources of job loss among White workers have to do with factory relocations and labor contracting outside the Amalgamated States, computerization and automation, and corporate downsizing http://www.understandingprejudice.org... 5.1) Affirmative Action does not deteriorate society. You wouldn't be allowing "less than able" people people into college by making leeway since the test scores are clearly biased, which you agreed with. 5.2) See the above rebuttal The focus IS on ability and achievements, not failure and pity since the main goal that affirmative action wants to achieve is to give people who, by their obstacles have it much harder that privileged kids, the tools to fulfill their full potential instead of refusing them unfairly without considering their disadvantages