Unjust discrimination against a particular minority person
Read Affirmative Action: Pro by Albert G. Mosley and answer the following 6 questions:
- What kind of restitution does corrective justice require for past and present harms caused by discrimination against minorities and women?
- In what kinds of cases is it proper to hire a less qualified nonwhite job applicant over a more qualified white applicant?
- How do racist and sexist employment practices lead to an “unjust enrichment” of subsequent white male job applicants?
- What latent effect does the unjust discrimination against a particular minority person have on the minority group as a whole?
- Why is it a mistake to assume that minority members with the least qualifications are necessarily those who have been most harmed by discriminations?
- Thomas Jefferson (paraphrasing Aristotle) once said “There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.” Some, argue that it is not fair to treat all people the same, since all people are not the same, respond to this idea by agreeing or disagreeing.
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