The problem with granting any ground to racist programs like Affirmative Action, means we end up where we are now. The problem with this fellow right here, is that he defends that like it wasn't observably and painfully a failure.

And it was the poster definition of slippery slope in practice, as everyone opposed to it knew it was back then. When it was sold as a policy it was "this isn't racial quotas, this is just guaranteeing everyone gets a fair shake during interviews and hiring" and within 5 years it was racial quotas to ensure you were doing that 'fair shake' thing.

Affirmative Action had its partner slogan of Equal Opportunity. Everyone who followed the AA mandates could brand themselves as "An Equal Opportunity employer" in their advertisements and solicitations. It was a sham because all of the impositions of the policy were that you did NOT give equal opportunity to anyone because you first filtered them by 'race' and 'gender,' and later they tacked on 'sexual orientation' because gays and 'religious affiliation' because muslims. And people would want to know if you were an Equal Opportunity employer (caps palpable) and you had a legal barrier to replying to that honestly lest you be in violation of a technicality of this policy since they owned those two words now.

This is a fundamental issue of our times and culture. Disagreeing on this isn't merely missing out on a 100% compatibility mark. And he is doing more than disagreeing, he is defending the provable failure of the last 30 years with very modern, very Marxist reasoning that they didn't even use then because they lied about what it WAS then. He's buying the premise of what it turned out Affirmative Action IS and defending THAT. It is beyond unconscionable.