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How does the controversial use of affirmative action in contemporary American society compare and contrast?

• How does the controversial use of affirmative action in contemporary American society compare and contrast with its implementation post World War II?

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  Many people feel that the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer are not produced by discrimination and cannot be resolved by anti-discrimination. The purpose of anti-discrimination is not to make people less poor but only to make sure that their poverty is not caused by racism or sexism. Affirmative action is a policy or a program providing advantages for people of a minority group who are seen to have traditionally been discriminated against. This consists of preferential access to education, employment, health care, or social welfare. It is also known as reverse discrimination but in the United States this term is used solely by its detractors. In employment, affirmative action may also be known as employment equity. In this context affirmative action requires that institutions increase hiring and promotion of candidates of mandated groups. Critics often object to the use of racial quotas and gender quotas in affirmative action. Quotas are illegal in the United States, except when a judge issues an order for a specific institution to make up for extreme past discrimination. There is dispute over whether this de jure illegality prevents de facto quotas. Much time has been spent attempting to show that these "goals" are not quotas.