Most people don't understand the purpose of "affirmative action" style hiring. It's not to implement a quota and to enforce an "equality of outcome", that's bas

Most people don't understand the purpose of "affirmative action" style hiring. It's not to implement a quota and to enforce an "equality of outcome", that's basically unworkable. Rather it's a form of "kentucky windage" to compensate for a system that has a known series of institutional biases across the board. It's a crude tool but if the alternative is waiting until all of those biases naturally bleed out of the system over generations then it's generally preferable.