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It's very difficult to take you seriously, Jason, in fact I am not going to make the attempt.

If you think being nonwhite confers some sort of advantage in American politics then you need to stop watching Tucker Carlson and read about the intensity of opposition to Obama. You might start with McConnell leaving a Supreme Court bench empty for a year.

You probably think that affirmative action was intended to give unfair advantage to academically and occupationally (if not intrinsically) inferior black people. You'd be wrong. It was intended to compensate for unfair admissions and hiring practices that didn't allow blacks and others to be fairly treated. There were a lot of black men with doctorate degrees who couldn't get better than janitorial work.

Why do I even bother?

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To "beat a straw man" means to rebut a point that the other has not made. Where did I do that? You mean the paragraph that opens with "you probably think?"

I guess that was my mistake.

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