Is it? Almost all outcomes favor the majority. How many straight white males actually think they would have better life outcomes being born black female gay? Even with affirmative action, that only impacts a very small percentage of people at a very narrow window of time.

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beeflet 4 days ago | parent [-]

Why is it the job of private institutions to regulate the life outcomes of key political demographics?

Private institutions have the job of selecting the best candidates, and they don't have the right to discriminate against any candidates on the basis of race.

In one breath, supporters of affirmative action in this thread will deny that such discrimination exists, and in the other they will justify its existence. Clearly you must acknowledge on some level that it's not really defensible.

	▲	kenjackson 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		It’s a great question. And I think we are in a bit of a pickle as not doing something is just acting in the opposite way to regulate life outcomes. It’s like gerrymandering districts and then when people want to move things back to a more normal partition you say “let’s just leave things as they are and not tinker”. But you’re now just advantaging the group that tinkered last.