Arguments Against Affirmative Action

Affirmative action is a policy that was designed to end discrimination in the United States Of America, by making sure that all minorities and people of color, even women. They would all be given the equal opportunity to get hired into a job or get accepted to a school. No matter what color their skin is, what country they are from or what religion they believe in, They all should be treated the same as every single race out there. It was first used in the United States in “Executive Order No.10925”, it was signed by John F . Kennedy who was the president of the country at that time, Affirmative action is still being used in this country till this day. The debates that will be included in this essay below are about Affirmative action …show more content…
At first, affirmative action was believed to be the thing that was going to make everything better, that minorities and women were gonna start getting equal opportunities and everything would be fine but no.

It was made to believe that it would put an end to discrimination but instead of doing that it created something called reverse discrimination. which should not be used in order to get rid of past discrimination?

instead of people getting hired for a job or get accepted into a college because of their quality, ability and intelligence they are getting chosen by race or gender which is wrong because people that are highly capable and have put in work in order to get a certain job or getting accepted into a schools are not getting in because affirmative action is putting minorities at a higher advantage even though they may not be able to the job as well or even meet the exact requirements to actually even do it. Students that aren’t not necessarily qualified to get into college but get in because of affirmative action become a part of a mitch match because they aren’t qualified they will start to eventually fail in classes, at test’s