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Dworkins Belief Of Preferential Treatment :: essays research papers

Dworkins Belief of Preferential Treatment     For many years, preferential treatment has been used to try to make upfor past times wrong-doings to minorities. There have been many cases tried overracial discrimination, with verdicts of both innocent and guilty. RonaldDworkin attempts to argue that preferential treatment is socially useful and atthe alike time does not violate bulks rights. This is wrong for many reasonshere I shall illustrate how preferential treatment hinders racial equality,violates peoples rights, and can lead to a set about opinion toward a particularrace.     Dworkin believes that continuing preferential treatment will decreaseracial consciousness and the importance of race. This is the total opposite ofwhat truly happens. If a person were to consider Americas past, as an example,he would see how racially diverse people were. Now look around. Just walkingacross any habituated area, groups of people of the same race ar e seen walkingtogether. Most people do not notice this, but very rarely are groups ofethnically diverse people seen. Although there are no longer any laws statingthat there must be a separation between different races, people still practiceit unconsciously. Dworkin states that the long-term goal of preferentialtreatment "is to reduce the degree to which American edict is overall aracially conscious society (294)." Preferential treatment does nothing of thesort. It was used widely in the past and still exists in some areas today. Ithas not reduced racial consciousness, but increase it by making people thinkmore about how many spaces are reserved for their particular race. Instead,people should think of what their chances are of getting something on account oftheir personal knowledge over individual elses, not even considering their race asa factor. This is evident in a blacks point of assure of getting into themedical school of the University of California at Davis. Sixtee n places are setaside just for blacks and other minorities, no matter how low their judge scoresare. That way, minorities dont even have to worry about competing with whitesfor a position. This does not, in any way, reduce racial consciousness bysetting two tracks for main course to medical school, one for the minorities, andone for the majority.     Mr. Dworkin supports the idea that preferential treatment does notviolate peoples rights. His argument is weak here because he attempts to provethis by adage that if two things do not violate peoples rights, then neitherdoes a third. The two things that supposedly do not violate rights are thedenial of someone to medical school because of their age and because their test

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