I don't consider correcting historic injustices and systemic racism to be racism. AA was a reasonable attempt to correct things from America's past. I'm all for a large scale analysis of it to see if it has achieved the desired impact, and if it is still necessary.
Don't get too caught up in the absurdity of the example, but hitler would surely have said the same thing about correcting the injustices that the jews had inflicted upon Germany.
I am not saying you're hitler, obviously. Just that i wonder where and how you're drawing your lines. Lines tend to get fuzzy when subjective justice is administered in a generalised manner. Especially when the direct victims of the injustice that is to corrected are beyond the reach of said justice.
My opinion is that the resultant injustices of race-based policies are rectified, over time, by purging the system of race-based policies.
Nothing will be repaired overnight, but i do not believe that replacing those race-based policies with other race-based policies that make a different group feel marginalised is really an answer to anything, other than "how to keep people divided."
Also, i am not sure that justice or injustice can be effectively applied to a group based purely on their colour. I think justice is more of a case-by-case concept. People are individuals, after all.
Anyway, how do you define racism, if not as race-based discrimination?
But, I don't think it makes any sense for the Justice Department to go after Harvard hard like this, when there is so much disgusting corruption in the corporate world, not to mention organized crime, drug cartels, etc. It's a huge misallocation of resources.
Again, i am not all that familiar with America's interpretation of affirmative action (i do know that it is a lot more resonable than ours) but depending on the kiebler elf's intended scope, i have to disagree with you.
To me, education stomps almost everything else, in terms of national priorities. Problems in the education system not only perpetuate themselves if not corrected, but they magnify almost every other problem a nation faces.