The irony in the debate over “Affirmative Action” is so heavy it’s surprising there isn’t an Army Corp of Engineers project to try and bulldoze it aside. Opponents are (unsurprisingly) outraged by these upside-down Jim Crow laws, while proponents are left in the awkward (not to mention bizarre) position of defending race and gender discrimination in the name of eliminating race and gender discrimination.
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Tags: affirmative action, discrimination, gender, race, racism
