The problem is that affirmative action hiring practices may have these mathematics ignoramuses designing bridges, flying airplanes, and even becoming air traffic controllers!
Leftist is dangerous for children and other living things.
You’re both correct, un-Constitutional discrimination against white people will be a problem ( I refuse to use the soft term “affirmative action”).
He’s already angry about that, he has to contend with the idiots in classes now, and he knows they will get a leg up on him in school choice.
It all comes out in the wash though. If you can’t actually understand a vector partial differential equation then you won’t make it in Fluid Mechanics, because at least for now, at the university level, there’s no tolerance for not getting it.
So we just look for schools where it isn’t going to be an obvious factor. And most engineering / technical companies only have token programs - if you’re jets don’t work, they don’t get flown, and the company ceases to exist.
There are AA idiots in Engineering. They get sidelined very quickly once the work actually has to be done.