Monday, February 22

THE FALLACY OF REVERSE DISCRIMINATION w/ Dr. ALAN SOFFIN

When colleges accepted minority applicants who had records inferior to Caucasian students it was said such a policy was simply discrimination in reverse. The same was argued when a black contractor was selected over a more established white contractor. I will argue that this seemingly sensible complaint is based on a misunderstanding of “discrimination.”

Alan Soffin, PhD, taught at Michigan State and Temple Universities. Currently he teaches philosophy of religion at Temple’s adult education center. He is an American Film Institute award winning filmmaker and an exhibited photographer. Dr. Soffin’s areas of interest also include music (clas ical and popular), metaphysics, film, photography and political theory.