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Actually, affirmative action is only "affirmative" if you fall into a protected people category *and would not have been granted admission under the standards used to admit/reject individuals in non-protected categories.* The problem with the logic presented about *this* professor's situation is the assumption that because she falls into a protected category, she therefore has received the protection accorded to members of that category by an affirmative action policy. Her present employ may reflect not the redress of discrimination granted those of us with a second x chromosome, but skill and training superior to that of all other applicants--with the second x chromosome a felicitous extra. Indeed, in the absence of other evidence this seems to me to be the most collegial assumption. Sincerely, Alyssa Picard Department of History University of Michigan
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