> affirmative action does nothing but help members of a specific group who are already advantaged. If you don't know any highly skilled people from disadvantag

> affirmative action does nothing but help members of a specific group who are already advantaged. If you don't know any highly skilled people from disadvantaged backgrounds that benefited from some affirmative action, that says more about you and your environment than the policy. There are definitely problems where affirmative action gets exploited, but it is horribly reductionist to find the entire tool useless because of that.