Affirmative Action is a segregationist policy, segregating not bodies but minds, part and parcel with "diversity" and "cultural relativism"-- all of them excuses for keeping Them Other People out of Real English-American society.
...see, it seems to me that that description of "attempt to have the hiring process better reflect the diversity of available qualified candidates" as segregationist only works if you are of the opinion that its end result is "hire people as tokenism and keep them perpetually in the token ghetto, where no-one will ever see them as useful, equal contributors to the workforce".
That seems like a really hard position to hold unless you are also of the opinion that none of Them Other People deserve to be hired and none of them can ever be useful, equal contributors to the workforce.
(I realize that you need to actually answer a specific question before responding to this observation, and you are certainly not obliged to respond to this observation at all (and should certainly feel free not to), but... oy.)
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Date: 2014-04-25 01:58 pm (UTC)...see, it seems to me that that description of "attempt to have the hiring process better reflect the diversity of available qualified candidates" as segregationist only works if you are of the opinion that its end result is "hire people as tokenism and keep them perpetually in the token ghetto, where no-one will ever see them as useful, equal contributors to the workforce".
That seems like a really hard position to hold unless you are also of the opinion that none of Them Other People deserve to be hired and none of them can ever be useful, equal contributors to the workforce.
(I realize that you need to actually answer a specific question before responding to this observation, and you are certainly not obliged to respond to this observation at all (and should certainly feel free not to), but... oy.)