In His Explanation of Weak Affirmative Action, Louis P

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In his explanation of weak affirmative action, Louis P. Pojman argues, "There is no more moral requirement to guarantee that 12 percent of professors are Black than to guarantee that 85 percent of the players in the National Basketball Association are White." He is here trying to show that weak affirmative action aims for equal opportunity, not equal results.

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