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    Quota systems requiring preferential hiring of blacks unt... — Carmelics
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    Quota systems requiring preferential hiring of blacks until proportional representation is achieved may be justified as a means of increasing effective opportunities for blacks.

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    • 1.Whites have historically enjoyed superior social status enforced by law and social custom, including periods of black enslavement.
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    • 2.As a result of historical advantages, whites on average have greater wealth and education while blacks have less.
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    • 3.Formal equality of opportunity alone does not correct the legacy of structural disadvantage, as most superior positions continue to go to whites even after formal equality is proclaimed.
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    • 1.Racial quota systems distribute burdens and benefits based on group membership rather than individual conduct, violating the Kantian principle that persons must be treated as ends in themselves.
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    • 2.Innocent third parties who played no causal role in historical discrimination bear the concrete costs of remediation, making quota systems a form of vicarious punishment incompatible with individual rights.
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    • 3.Nozick's entitlement theory holds that rectification requires tracing injustice to specific violators and victims, not redistributing along demographic lines that dissolve individual moral agency.
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    • 1.Thomas Sowell's empirical work shows that group economic disparities routinely predate discriminatory policies or persist identically in groups that faced no legal discrimination, weakening the causal inference in P2.
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    • 2.If proportional representation is not the expected natural outcome of free competition among diverse groups, quotas enforce a statistical baseline that itself lacks principled justification.
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    • 3.Targeting proportional representation as the benchmark for corrected opportunity smuggles in an egalitarian outcome metric that the equal opportunity framework was never designed to guarantee.
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    Consider a stylized example. Suppose that in the U.S., whites have enjoyed superior social status, enforced by law and social custom, for decades, going back to times in which blacks were enslaved. Now whites on the average have greater wealth and education and blacks have less. Suppose that formal equality of opportunity is now proclaimed as the law of the land and embraced by popular morality. Still, most superior positions in society continue to go to whites. In this context a variety of meas
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