[SecondAmendment]

> What the WaPo article intentionally obscures is that at the time, major corporations and unions saw affirmative action as a deterrent to and good faith defense against potential civil rights actions based on past racial discrimination.

And methinks the same corporations later saw it as a cudgel to wield against nimbler and leaner competition.

[Rockingham]

Could be, but unionization has more heft for that purpose.