Summary
Many people disagree with affirmative action on the grounds that it represents "benign prejudice" and is therefore discriminatory. My rebuttal comes from Justice John Paul Stevens' opinion from an affirmative action case that was tried by the Supreme Court in 1995:
"A decision by representatives of the majority to discriminate against the members of a minority race is fundamentally different from (the) . . . decision to impose incidental costs on the majority . . . in order to provide a benefit to a disadvantaged minority. The former is virtually always repugnant to the principles of a free and democratic society, whereas the latter is, in some circumstances, entirely consistent with the ideal of equality."See the full content of this document
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All Discrimination Is Negative
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