>Affirmative action is targeting specific groups of people to achieve some desired makeup. That's literally what affirmative action means. When the 10% of a hi

>Affirmative action is targeting specific groups of people to achieve some desired makeup. That's literally what affirmative action means. When the 10% of a high school class consists of a statistically outsized proportion of a desired group of people favoring them would be called affirmative action, yes. Just because a policy doesn't pick people out by the color of their skin doesn't make it not affirmative action. (And likewise, just because a policy doesn't call out skin color doesn't make it not racist.)