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Re: The just and the unjust ways to address modern racial inequality: affirmative act

I am only right-leaning on some of them; on most issues I am most sympathetic to the left's view but see defects in the left's proposed solutions, and occasionally the right has better solutions (however inadvertently or accidentally).

This is getting way too off topic. My own political preferences bear no relevance to whether affirmative action is a just policy or now. I'm just going to respond to the on-topic posts.

Yeah, um, encouraging things like that, to go around and yell to everyone that a highly respected university is RACIST just like that is what exactly NOT to do. People like you who encourage such things are why people like me are often not taken seriously in a left-leaning discussion, because it is often assumed that someone actively against AA is just another racist loudmouthed Limbaugh and O'Reilly fanboy.

Even if their policies may, strictly speaking, be racist, going around saying that first is not the way to win people over to your cause.