Wojtek: Affirmative action is the Don Quixote of neoliberalism. It sets ups the spectre of discrimination based on birth and fights that straw man to cover up the discrimination it promotes - that based on supposed merits. In this neoliberal world token measure such as affirmative actions scholarships etc. are taken to help a select few women or minorities to attain the elite status through educational credentials, while robbing the great majority of them of decent standards of living by mechanisms such as market competition and pay discrimination based on college credentials. That is why am not unfazed by this whole affirmative action debate - affirmative action may have played a positive role when ethnic/racial discrimination was rampant, but it is a ruse when the discrimination became based on the market and college credentials.
CB: This is still a white supremacist system with people of color on average worse off in every statistical category of quantity and quality of life , life expectancy, wealth and income, educational level, status of all types. You should know this as a sociologist ,Wojtek Wojtek Sokolowski. "Racism do exist, still." Thus, affirmative action is still necessary . You're the Don Quixote of Reaganite denial of racism , professor.
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