The Ethics of Affirmative ActionThe Center for Applied Ethics cosponsored a symposium entitled "The Ethics of Affirmative Action" on April 21, 1992, featuring Richard Wasserstrom, Ph.D., and Shelby Steele, Ph.D. Steele, a scholar known nationally for his articulate opposition to affirmative action, argued against the legitimacy of preferential treatment programs. Wasserstrom has earned a national reputation as an ethicist in suppport of preferential treatment programs. The event was funded by a Santa Clara University Irvine Foundation Grant. Excerpts from the presentation are printed below. "If one asks what was distinctively unjust about the system
of social segregation that was animated by the doctrine of seperate
but equal. . .the answer is. . .that this system's ideology
of black inferiority. . .was and is incompatible with the rightful
claims of all persons. . .to fundamentally equal membership
and standing within the society of which they were and are a
part.
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