> If the help is going to privileged people instead, it's not affirmative action While I might agree about this being a bad outcome, I also don't think a "no t

> If the help is going to privileged people instead, it's not affirmative action While I might agree about this being a bad outcome, I also don't think a "no true Scotsman" argument is helpful. What is described here is still affirmative action - just a bad implementation of it. Instead of trying to define them away, we should admit that such bad implementations can exist, and push for good implementations instead.