[corkoman]

...which is the problem with crap like "Affirmative Action" because even the competent people who are beneficiaries will always be under the cloud of that affirmative action, and will always have difficulty being judged on their own merits.

Bingo - in a few years all female and POC pilots will suffer from sideways glances from bug-eyed boarding passengers - all suspecting that the pilots are Affirmative Action grads.

And it may not be fair to those who actually made the grade without special treatment.

[rlmorel]

Affirmative Action is similar to a form of slavery, in my opinion, in that it hurts both the implementers of Affirmative Action, and the subjects of Affirmative action.