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This may touch off another powder keg, but I have a hard time seeing how anyone could possibly argue that affirmative action isn't racism.
I guess we don't like to say this so bluntly because supporting AA would imply that one believes that not all racism is bad. It would be saying that racism is a tool that can be used to uplift and (ostensilbly) remedy as well as oppress and subjugate. That's not so PC.
A non-racist version of AA would tie benefits to socio-economic status, not race. Of course, such a thing would likely look a lot like the current version of AA. But then again, this thing doesn't exist.
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