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The available numbers don’t tell us if there was any evidence of systemic bias in the underlying grant criteria, or in the evaluation of applications against those criteria.
People of goodwill tie themselves into the most absurd intellectual knots as they attempt to discuss affirmative action without acknowledging its inherent unpleasantness.
If the intentions of senior military leadership are not so self-aggrandising and opportunistic, then they are at least ignorant of the underlying dynamics and complexities of gender equality in an environment as unique as the military.
The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action.