the reason to defend affirmative action wasn’t because racial preferences were perfect but to defend the principle that institutions ought to account for disparities, disadvantage and discrimination. unfortunately we have a large clique of dipshit pundits who could get fooled by a wallet inspector.

I wish there were a vaccine for this cognitive error whereby people take the success of public health measures (e.g. eliminating measles from the US) as permission to abandon the public health measures