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Agreed upon definition:

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"A policy or a program that seeks to redress past discrimination through active measures to ensure equal opportunity, as in education and employment."

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Craig's comment:
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Diversity in the workplace and in schools is a legitimate state interest.

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How does one go from correcting past discrimination and ensuring equal opportunity to arguing that diversity in a legitimate interest? It would appear that you are using AA to push a different ideal. I think that either you need to change your definition of AA or you need to drop this argument.

Just curious, "should the NBA and NFL actively try and recruit more Whites and Asians to play in their leagues? Surely, these groups are underrepresented on a massive scale. It certainly would seem silly to go hire a bunch of short Asian players to play in the NBA because we know they would not be as good as the players currently playing. Yet, couldn't one argue that diversity is good for the team and a compelling state interest? We would never force sports teams to do this because we understand the purity of competition and the effects are quite obvious. Yet, the AAers have no problem forcing this upon businesses who compete in other areas.