A contributing writer to the Macalester College Mac Weekly has a very good article on affirmative action.
“First and foremost,” he notes, “affirmative action policies are discriminatory. Their stated goal, after all, is to discriminate.” And then, in a point I’ve made several times (such as here), he adds that
I find it comical that almost all groups that use affirmative action policies also have a statement similar to the following:
“We do not discriminate on the bases of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic.” But hypocrisy aside….
Read the whole thing.
