1. If a particular event affects some members of a group, then it affects all.
2. Some blacks are affected by racial prejudices.
3. Therefore, all blacks are affected by racial prejudices.
-Premise 1 is wrong. Therefore, the conclusion doesn't follow.
1. If a particular group has been wronged, that group is entitled to retributive justice.
2. AA were wronged (i.e. slavery, segregation...)
3. Therefore, AA are entitled to retributive justice (in the form of Affirmative Action).
- You have to define the parameters (in terms of time and size) for the group before you adminster retributive justice. Figuring out who deserves retributive justice is the hard part.
- The safe argument is that some African Americans deserve retributive justice for the injustices done in the past. Ideally, you'd like to track those who were impactly, albeit indirectly, the most. Of course, this possibility is improbable, since determining the magnitude of slavery and jim crow racism on descendants is an incredibly difficult task. So, what do you use as a proxy? Some argue that race is an adequate proxy. However, I think class might be a better proxy. Hence, I disagree with race-based AA.