PHIL 2135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ageism, Atavism, Anomie
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1. use af rmative action to make sure we don"t use race as a basis for selection. 2. af rming to deny that as a source of selection criteria: positive af rmative action i. president lyndon johnson"s howard university commencement address. 1. equality is a fact and equality is a result. 2. difference in result shows that the process is an invidious one. 4. changes the notion of af rmative action a. used to mean that we will af rm we will not use b. he is saying that we have to use race-selection of criteria i. positive af rmative action. 5. many people who argue for the positive view are tacitly using the negative view as a bolster for their argument for the positive view. 6. supreme court cases: bakke v. regents of the university of california i. admission to medical school issue of signi cant value ii. uc davis (public university) they had 100 seats open for new incoming class. 1. 16 set aside for black people (maybe others)
