Topic: We should end affirmative action

Argument: affirmative action is still needed when there is inequality in society.

Argument: affirmative action is the best way to promote people of color out of poverty and needs to be kept.

Argument: affirmative action is the only way some people will ever make it in their chosen profession and we can't allow it to be put to an end.

Argument: affirmative action is the only way that minorities can be sure of employment and the practice should continue

Argument: affirmative action is unfair to those that don't fit into a group that's been labeled "discriminated against in the past". anyone may have risen from a struggle and deserves equal opportunity.

Argument: Affirmative action leads to less productive outcomes in both education and the economy because those most qualified often lose opportunities in order to fill quotas.

Argument: affirmative action leads to lower morale in the workplace and demoralization in the jobsearch sector

Argument: Affirmative action lets disadvantaged people a real chance to advance from a low starting point and succeed.

Argument: Affirmative action makes race the dominant factor in admissions and hiring procedures. Someone applying for a job or school should be judged based on merit, not on minority status.

Argument: Affirmative action makes sure that people get jobs regardless of the demographic profile they fit in.

Argument: Affirmative action makes the playing field equal for all.

Argument: affirmative action makes up for years of discrimination in the past; therefore it should be continued.

Argument: Affirmative action may have been necessary in the past, but the expansion of opportunities for women and minorities in recent decades have made affirmative action obsolete.

Argument: affirmative action may hurt people because of the perception that they didn't get their way in on effort alone.

Argument: affirmative action needs to be in place to continue to ensure that all people are considered for a position despite race, nationality, religion, disability or sex.

Argument: affirmative action prevents discrimination by employers

Argument: Affirmative action privileges people based on characteristics outside of their control, and therefore is an unjust government system and is discriminatory.

Argument: affirmative action puts people in jobs that they are not qualified for instead of someone who is

Argument: Affirmative action reinforces stereotypes. If a person is given a job purely because of affirmative action and he does poorly, it may perpetuate the idea that all members of his race/ethnic group are incompetent.

Argument: affirmative action remains necessary while minorities are still discriminated against

Argument: affirmative action results in unfair discrimination for other groups, many more people are now losing out because there are supposedly in a majority group which excludes them from many opportunities.

Argument: affirmative action seeks to face discrimination and promote equity

Argument: affirmative action serves to reverse past prejudices by guaranteeing spots (in a school, government, etc. ) for previously disadvantaged minorities.