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Affirmative Action Debate
Monday Paper (University of
Cape Town)
The
following is a complete record of the debate in the
University of Cape Town’s Monday Paper.
23
April 2007, Volume 26.05
David Benatar:
"Affirmative action" not the way to tackle injustice
Martin Hall:
The case for equity
David Benatar:
Equity, Not "Equity"; Truth, Not "Truth"
7 May 2007, Volume 26.06
Affirmative Action and UCT
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela:
Onwards (or Backwards) into the 21st Century at UCT
Various Comments
21 May 2007, Volume 26.07
David Benatar:
Respect and Honesty: Let’s Get The Facts Correct
On the Affirmative Action "Debate" at UCT:
Lebogang Hoveka:
On Race-Based Affirmative Action
Sam Raditlhalo:
Nothing new in the Benatar inaugural lecture
Zimitri Erasmus:
Governing Whiteness! Now that cannot be allowed!
4 June 2007, Volume 26.08
Michael Rolfe:
Affirmative support
Leslie London:
Affirmative Action and the invisibility of white privilege
30 July 2007, Volume 26.10
David Benatar:
Reciprocating Professor London's "logic lessons"
Cape Times
The
Cape Times has kindly given permission to reproduce
here David Benatar’s contributions to the affirmative action
debate in that newspaper. Regrettably, they are unable to
provide permission to reprint the contributions of others
without the permission of those others. Given how many
people participated in the debate over nearly three months,
it is hard to reach them all. The resultant absence of their
words is regrettable. Their contributions will be added here if they
provide
evidence that the Cape Times has given such
permission.
Notes:
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The
dates listed below are the dates the articles appeared
in print. However, most of the articles themselves were
downloaded from the web where they were published the
day before appearing in print.
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For
reasons of courtesy, David Benatar avoids the practice
of using only surnames to refer to others. Preserving
courteous discourse is particularly important when
debating sensitive topics such as affirmative action.
Regrettably, the Cape Times’ practice is to use
first and last name when a person is first mentioned,
but thereafter to use surname only. Readers are asked to
note, therefore, that the use of surnames only in the
following articles is a consequence of an editor’s
rather than the author’s pen.
12 April 2007
David Benatar:
Affirmative action not the way to tackle
injustice
19 April
2007
David
Benatar:
Affirmative confusion (Response to Dr Robert Segall)
20
April 2007
David
Benatar:
Affirmative action (Response to Dr Laurie Nathan)
3 May 2007
David Benatar:
Affirmative action supporters are still
getting it wrong
21 June 2007
David Benatar:
My critics have failed the test of reason
3 July 2007
David
Benatar:
Debating Logic
Forthcoming
Other
components of the debate may be added later.
* * *
In the
journal Argumentation, Ben Kotzee argues that
some of David Benatar’s critics were guilty of the
“poisoning the well” fallacy.
- Ben
Kotzee, “Poisoning the Well and Epistemic Privilege”,
Argumentation, Vol. 24, 2010, pp. 265-281.
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