L30 Phil 131F Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Louis Pojman, The Need, Spatial Mismatch
12 Dec 2018
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Strong affirmative action: preferential treatment, discriminating in favor of members of under-represented groups, which have been treated unjustly in the past, against innocent people. Weak affirmative action: seeks to promote equal opportunity to the goods and offices of a society. Main argument: has no moral weight. Strong affirmative action against white males is both racist and sexist, and. The need for role models - we learn and are encouraged to strive for excellence by emulating our heroes and our kind of people" who have succeeded. Response: more important than having role models of one"s own type is having genuinely good people, of whatever race or gender, to emulate. Response: the best way to create role models is not to promote people because of race or gender but because they are the best qualified for the job. Compensation - blacks have been wronged and severely harmed by whites, therefore white society should compensate blacks for the injury caused them.
