Affirmative action is not discriminatory in my book, just an effort to address historic disadvantages ... if you have another way to do it let me know. My experience is that mandated change works faster than waiting for goodwill to happen.
Choosing somebody for a job specifically because they're white or male over a visible minority or woman is considered discrimination, but choosing somebody for a job specifically because they're a visible minority or woman over a white or male is not considered discrimination. I don't get that.
The problem is, by what metric are these affirmative action quotas made? How do you set the quotas? What imbalance is due to discrimination? Many argue there's discrimination in STEM fields. Well it's likely more to do with preference. Never met too many women interested in computer programming, however the majority of medical school students are now women, and there's more female grads in family medicine and psychiatry etc, because women like helping people:
https://news.aamc.org/press-releases/article/applicant-enrollment-2017/If you can prove discrimination is happening, and eliminate all other variables, and then set a specific quota based on how many minorities/women would roughly be hired if no discrimination existed, then i'd be fine with AA.
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