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Affirmative Action - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Racial preferences are designed to compensate historical wrong doings such as segregation and slavery
      - Not fair to compensate people who played no part in perpetrating the injustice
- - - - Society is crown of virtue
    - - The more we regard our success as our own doing, the less responsibility we feel for those who fall behind
- - - - minorities to assume positions of leadership advances the civic purpose
      - Someone from others backgrounds can bring different aspects which others never have been exposed before
      - Ex) A farm boy from Idaho can bring something to Harvard College that a Bostonian cannot offer
    - - Principle
        
        The policy of achieving diversity because it use ethnicity. Doing so it violate the right of applicants
        
        Unfair competitive advatnage
      - Practical
        
        Does not promote a more diverse society, but creates prejudice and inequality with dominated groups
      - Utilitarianism view on principle objections
        
        the overall happiness of society out weights individual's happiness
      - Kant
        
        using race is overriding individual rights and it is unjust
      - Ronald Dworkin
        
        if school sets mission statement, it is not discrimination against other race because it is their mission
        
        examples) Anti-Jewish Quotas
        
        Racial and ethnic diversity in the classroom and the courtroom serves the law school's educational purpose
    - - Goal of housing project is establishing a community with diversity (60 percent white and 40 percent was black and Spanish)
        
        It was drived by ethical backgrounds caused discriminatory against minorities
        
        If no one is discriminated against based on hatred or contempt, then racial preferences do not violate anyone's rights