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white counterparts with identical credentials are. 12 This
policy has led to high drop-out rates among those African
American students who are not academically prepared
for the level of coursework for which schools artificially
selected them. It also attaches a stigma to all minority students
regardless of their qualifications, because people
tend to think that schools admitted them because of affirmative
action.
Focusing on increasing terminal outcomes, like the
percentage of minorities employed in a certain industry,
ignores the social and economic factors that make it difficult
for minorities to achieve representative employment
on their own. 13 While increased campus diversity
is a desirable goal, the methods that affirmative action
employs result in student resentment, minority underpreparedness,
and discrimination against nonprotected
students. The policy of affirmative action in university
admissions has substituted yesterday’s “good old boys”
cronyism for an updated, politically correct form of
cronyism.
The motivating forces behind feminism and social justice—the
reaction against unjust government privilege of
males and whites—were fruitful and necessary catalysts
that established a more liberal society. The eradication
of Jim Crow laws and the extension of economic rights
to women were important steps toward eliminating the
cronyism of the past. Modern advocates for social justice,
however, have called for replacing the privileges that their
activist predecessors fought so hard to destroy with a new
set of privileges for a new set of privileged groups. Rather
than advocating for social justice as an environment in
which the law treats everyone as equal and everyone as
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