The question concerning affirmative action has dominated modern society and have since provoked more considerable discussion than it was a few years ago. Several people, mainly civil movements across the world, have mobilized for affirmative action in various fields, such as public and private recruiting, college opportunities, representation and ethnic diversity. This seeks to disintegrate aspects of prejudice which exclude females and ethnic minorities in the workforce, in schools and in other community participation (Leonard, 146). While affirmative action requires an equitable environment in which to function, it also encroaches other people’s fundamental rights. For example, affirmative actions contradict the concept of excellence and end up punishing innocent citizens. Additionally, affirmative action often targets marginalized groups for the misguided belief that correlates minority status to the oppressed, thereby reversing discrimination. Therefore, this paper tends to differ with whatever is brought about by affirmative action and encourages its abolition with the strongest word possible.
The affirmative action lowers expectations of admission to different ethnic groups by implementing institutional counterbalances for marginalized students. It provides a fairground to all and ensures that disadvantaged individuals from different groups have access to the same requisite resources, thereby providing an adequate living to every individual. The critics of affirmative action term it as reverse injustice (Cahn, 3). They argue that past discrimination or racism towards a specific disadvantaged group can not prove or disprove the prevailing prejudice against minority groups. As per the universal bill of rights protected by the state constitution, all persons are entitled by the laws of the nation and also by the religious principles which acknowledge that all of us are equal before God. For this reason, every individual deserves to be treated fairly, and there should be no preferential treatment given to anyone else.
Individuals that reap from affirmative action would have higher academic expectations relative to counterparts. The expectation sometimes causes them to feel agitated. Affirmative action also doesn’t appear to make it better for disadvantaged people; it just complicates it. Similarly, the mission can not be entirely fulfilled by workers or students who get a position by affirmative action. They eventually take the roles for granted because they didn’t work hard on them. It inevitably results in poor productivity at workplace and may result in the dismissal of students while at work; they may end up performing horribly in colleges and being implicated in fraudulent academic activities which may cause their termination.
The practice of affirmative action in corporations and universities weakens the exact democracy dimension by placing vulnerable minority component as a critical issue when recruiting or gaining graduate admissions. As a consequence, it strengthens both dimensions of prejudice and racism (Moule, 26). For example, taking advantage of work positions or contributing to a specific group under the basis of affirmative action produces a notion that the group is not eligible and either dumb or incompetent. This promotes the weaker community as “foolish” as well as ignorant. Moreover, if affirmative action campaigning is on colour, it implies that people of other races are weak, vulnerable, and so forth, and that life relies only on favours. Equally, this often incorporates prejudices by undyingly enshrining them in the structure (Onwuachi-Willig, 1138). Campaign on the diverse workforce or in universities doesn’t quite necessarily mean different opinions. Which suggests which affirmative action rarely contributes to true diversity. The special privileges associated with affirmative action on race alone is beneficial to some individuals, but disadvantageous to others, even though they deserve those roles or acceptance that are not equal to social ideals
The most effective way to address inequities in our communities, in general, would be through a competitive market mechanism that has no restrictions from anybody. It lessens the dimension of inequality because benefit and losses are the common factors in the scheme. The free market system tends to be insensitive to cases of race and sex; thus aspects of prejudice and discrimination are unusual. For such a reason, I suggest that affirmative action should be avoided like the plague as it marginalizes people disproportionately, whether from the majority or minority groups. It fosters an inaccurate view of collective rights, thus ignoring the rights of the individual.