It is; the saddest thing is that I’ve worked with and for some brilliant women, and they would be suspect because of the “soft bigotry of lowered expectations” that is imposed on women. Affirmative action is official government acknowledgment of gender and racial inferiority - there is simply no other way to look at it...
You’re right. Of course they’re looked at as tokens. The last two elections clearly show the majority like it.
I borrowed this but it cuts to the chase:
Just in case we need a reminder that Democrats haven’t changed in 150+ years:
Republicans fought against slavery, and fought for all citizens to be treated equally.
Then the Civil War ended, and the Antebellum Amendments were added to the Constitution. Democrats then invented Jim Crow laws, to once again treat people differently by race (also see the Affirmative Action laws of today).