> She also opposed the traditional meritocratic hiring principle, where professors with better legal pedigrees were more often hired, arguing that it limited the success of women and blacks.
She, and others like her, don't see the inherent racism and sexism of their position. They have their position upside-down.
She knows that she, personally, cannot compete based on ability, and so she assumes that other women and blacks are in the same position. Funny, people like Phyllis Schlafly, Margaret Thatcher, Thomas Sowell and so on didn’t need preferences to outdo just about everyone else ... but Michelle’s (accurate) feelings of inferiority are more important than the facts.
But they hired Elizabeth Warren. A documented 0/32 Cherokee.