The problem with affirmative action is that there's absolutely no structure in place to measure whether it's been effective. If the goal is to "correct for past discrimination", how are you going to know when that correction has occurred? When all races of people make the exact same amount of money? It's a totally unpractical solution that reads like it was cooked up by a 6th grader.
I can understand the desire to correct for the past, but once you've done so and you leave that policy in place, you're now just being a huge racist to different groups of people, which basically ensures continued racial animosity and resentment. Which might actually be the goal for unscrupulous race vultures who profiteer off pretending racism is more of a problem in modern life than it actually is.
How to be an anti-racist is a retarded book btw, it's pure academic sophistry. It presents assertions as if they are hard-fought conclusions. It's dumb as shit.
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