David Sacks, along with Peter Thiel, wrote an interesting piece, "The Case Against Affirmative Action". Convincingly enough, this article was enough to persuade me to believe against affirmative action. Incorporated as the main point was that affirmative brought about heated tension between race groups and the whole scenario contradicts itself. Sacks and Thiel addressed this issue with the use of irony. As stated, "The basic problem is that a racist past cannot be undone through more racism." That lingering statement could not have been said any better. How is a problem ever going to be solved if the solution is the problem? Sacks and Thiel provided second-hand evidence when stating, "This same push also has led Stanford to create racially segregated dormitories, racially segregated freshman orientation programs, racially segregated graduation ceremonies and curricular requirements in race theory and gender studies." It ought to be clear to see that affirmative action isn't effective if there are more separation between races. The goal of diversity was to assimilate all ethnic groups into one community but it only lead to the denial of certain people's rights for an opportunity based on race. Sacks and Thiel effectively established their claim by showing the results of their discoveries.
As a teenager transitioning into high school, it scares myself to think that my admission process may include race as a factor. Watching the film about affirmative action brought about a good point by this girl who might or might not have been a victim of affirmative action. Minorities accepted into colleges risk the chance of only getting in due to race instead of academic capabilities only discourages a person. Personally thinking about this before, I would want to get into my goal college in the sense that I worked hard enough and that my hard work has paid off. People would want to feel that they have earned that place but learning that it was deliberately given to you with race involved invokes a sense of luck that the person has a certain background. Admission processes should be equalized and it should not be designed so that those who worked hard are denied an opportunity as a means of diversity. An issue that should be targeted and may even the sole cause of the lack of diversity is the social class difference. Resources are not distributed evenly and that has become an issue that prevents a person's true capabilities. Nevertheless, everyone deserves an opportunity and affirmative action is not the best way to implement diversity.
