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Because our society has also agreed that using race as the sole reason to determine an outcome is a bad idea. Hence, the civil rights act which "makes it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race".

Why should we now fly in the face of that in order to advance one race at the expense of others?

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> Because our society has also agreed that using race as the sole reason to determine an outcome is a bad idea.

Except it didn't actually, as demonstrated, not by words, but by drastically disproportionate representation in every single major institution in the country. This is all an attempt to combat that fact. If that fact ever changes, then this stuff can all go away. Until then, the incorrect argument you (and most of HN it appears) have given is just holding back attempts at progress.

There might be good arguments for why affirmative action is a bad approach but this argument isn't one of them.

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