Preferential Hiring
In recent years has become an issue of great
interest. , which was devised to create harmony between
the different races and sexes, has divided the lines even more. Supporters
on both sides seem fixed in their positions and often refuse to listen to
the other group's platform. In this essay, the recipients of preferential
hiring will be either black or female, and the position in question will be
a professorship on the university level. The hirings in question are cases
that involve several candidates, all roughly equal in their qualifications
(including experience, education, people skills, etc.), with the only
difference being race and/orsex.
What we have here is a case of ...
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society.
Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream: "I have a dream that my four
little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged
by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." He
desired a world without discrimination, without prejudice, and without
stereotypes. The fundamental lesson years of discrimination should have
taught is that to give anyone preference based on skin color, sex, or
religious beliefs is, in one word, wrong. As Martin Luther King Jr. stated,
judgment based on skin color must not exist. All preferential hiring does
is keep judgments based on skin color alive. Race and sex should not be
issues in today's society, yet preferential hiring continues to make these
factors issues by treating minorities as a group rather than as individuals.
More importantly preferential hiring may actually fuel, rather than
extinguish, feelings of racial hostility.
Applying the concept of preferential hiring to another ...
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point Thomson quickly concedes as likely to be false.
Discussion about the second point however is required, and will, in effect,
serve to negate the first pointas well.
First, lets create a character, Bill. Bill is grossly overweight
and unattractive. Studies have shown that many employers discriminate
(whether subconsciously or not), against both overweight and unattractive
individuals. Unfortunately for Bill, he fits into both categories. His
inability to land a job reflective of his abilities, coupled with years of
public humiliation through jokes made at his expense, has destroyed his
self-esteem. This has caused him to accept as fact the notion that he will
never be ...
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