The Negative Effects of Affirmative Action Affirmative Action has increasingly become the subject of debate and tension in American society. However, the debate has become entangled in silly arguments of equality of opportunity versus the equality of results. “The purpose of Affirmative Action is not simply to avow good intentions but to register results (Cousens 126).” On one side, however, there are the con-Affirmative Action types who raise ethical and moral issues over the use of …showed first 75 words of 2108 total…

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