re: Asian groups come out in support of justice department affirmative action plan

Who decides those specific situations? What are the criteria?

I'm sure you could have found plenty of people in the US during the early 1900s who would agree with you that there are "some very specific situations where certain kinds of discrimination is the lesser evil."

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say, doing nothing to ameliorate the lingering effects of state-backed oppression.

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There are other ways to accomplish this besides turning right back around and doing the exact same fricking thing you're trying to ameliorate.