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Jasdeep Sidhu

Period 2

HPOD

I am against the government policy of affirmative action. The opinion is based on the following

reasons. It uses discrimination, lower status people do not enjoy its benifts, most of people were

not directly influenced by discrimination and all people should have equal rights.

Affirmative action requires the very discrimination it is seeking to eliminate in order to work. All

people have equal rights, no individual's rights should be sacrificed to compensate for another

person's rights. It leads to predice against the people who are beneficiries of this policy.

Affiermative action brings in race or ethnicity in admission process for jobs and colleges. For

example one may be very qualified for a certain job, but may be turned down in favor of a person

who is less qualified but is targeted for affirmative action in that certain job. This was prominent in

Bakke case where a well qualified student was denied admission in a medical college, twice, even

when he had better grade than some other children who got in college due to this Affimative

action. Each of those individuals turned down will be repressed and their example might dampen

the spirits of those like them, just as it had done to past social groups.

Another problem with this is its after effect, if the asians, jews and african americans are given

their special rights every other minority or ethinic group will claim to have faced discrimination

against in the past times and so every non white person will ask or demard for such privalages so

we cannot draw the line. More over most of the beneficeries of Affirmative actions were not even

directly discriminated against.

India is one of the contries that have given these special rights to a certain group or peopple and

faces its concequences. The major problem is that once stated it cannot be stoped, even when

the discrimination vaniches, these privalages remain and these section of people revolt and

protest againt the widral of these polices as they are used to these privalages from a long time.

Ironically its the common public who are discriminated in the end.

Another problem is that the main beneficeries of this Affirmative action of are going to be upper

class minorities. This pollicy is based on racial and ehinic basis and due to this most of the people

who are benefiteries of this policy are just going the rich minorities and the poor, deprived city

school children will not be able to benift from this policy.

This policy has good interests but the way in which they are doing it is bad. They should think of

better ways of achieving national integrety.