It sounds like you are suggested I am dumber than you, I don't think this is particularly fair.
Let me explain why you are a moron:
1) you don't know the difference between the concept of race, and the concept of ethnicity, and you are calling me stupid.
Let me try to explain for you, since like the other dullard you are too lazy and dumb to go use a wikipedia page to reduce your dimwittedness.
Affirmative action, or inverse racism does not recognise race. It recognises ethnicity. It 'works' by identifying an under-performing ethnic minority (typically), and attempts to uplift that entire under-performing minority by privileging some few of them to positions (of education, employment, finance etc).
The desired affect of which is a raised expectation of society, and a reversal of the appearance of racial typing, and racism in general in wider society.
Now since you brought it up (I didn't, I was talking about race being arbitrary), what constitutes this minority is a line in the sand drawn (nearly) as arbitrarily as the one that divides 'Indian' from Asian, Polynesian, European etc etc. These are broad categories, any point where Polynesian, and Asian ends, in an ethnic or genetic sense is certainly arbitrary.
Or do you think all 'black' people, recognised by affirmative action programs, are 100% black?
Do you perhaps think there is a point, a specific amount of black ancestry, where someone ceases to suffer racism, either directly for their perceived ethnicity, or indirectly as a result of centuries of institutionalised racism?
Since you claim some semblence of genius... what is that point? Because I can guarantee you that there is a point where all that affirmative action stops, not because your family are poor, or disenfranchised, or you have low expectations as a result of historic racism, but because the government, or organisation in question determines you to not be quite enough that ethnicity to deserve support.
Similarly, there are going to be people recognised as such a minority, whose family avoided, or overcame that historic racism, but simply by merit of their being recognised as that minority they will, as individuals, receive support denied to others more needing that assistance.
It is a clumsy tool, that works most of the time.
Ethnicity is similarly a clumsy tool that works most of the time.
Race is an even more clumsy tool, that worked really well for racist white people, most of the time.
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