Choose the statement that does not support the claim that justice requires preferential hiring and promotion to compensate people for the harms they have suffered.
A)Preferential treatment equalizes the situation of unfair discrimination after the fact and returns it to the point that it would have been had discrimination not occurred.
B)Young white males will lose their undeserved competitive advantage if society simply adopts equal opportunity policies.
C)Compensation is not being paid by young white males but by private business or society. These white males are only being denied the competitive advantage they previously enjoyed-something they did not deserve.
D)The only means to compensate for overall discrimination (e.g., in pay treatment) is to grant individual women preferential consideration in hiring and promotion.

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B) suggests that equal opportunity policies alone are insufficient to address past discrimination, implying that preferential hiring and promotion are necessary to correct these imbalances. This supports the claim for preferential treatment, rather than opposing it.

Choose the Statement That Does Not Support the Claim That