The thing detractors love to miss in these discussions is that affirmative action is designed to change demographics for the next generation.

I made that long post yesterday about this exact thing (and might roll it into something else to be posted on here), and this is exactly right.

There are few things currently more irritating to me than the attitude that since something isn't immediately effective it's not worth doing. Incrementalism is a thing, and making the daily small changes and call-outs culturally, economically, environmentally, etc. while coupling those acts with larger acts of experimentation, social protest and dissent, is how change is made.

To say "stop - this isn't working right now so it's not worth doing / we need to blow this up and completely alter this from scratch" is completely asinine most of the time.

But, you know, we live in this now now now world so what the fuck do I know, but at least I can admit to the privilege of being a white male and don't take for granted the fact that we're even having these more nuanced conversations about race, education, and economics.

...guess this article was more frustrating to me than I thought...