Good ad. Can't wait for Prop 16 to pass with huge numbers!
Affirmative action is the ultimate epitomie of neoliberal professional managerial class politics. It strengthens the advantages of the PMC in college admissions (by opposing standardized tests for instance in favour of less objective measures such as extracurriculars or "personality") while providing for cosmetic cosmopolitanism by admitting the elites of various ethnicities despite doing little in terms of levelling based on income. Poor and even lower middle-class whites and Asians are shafted by such a system. It also represents a politics of austerity by encouraging identitarian competition for a limited number of university seats rather than expanding the number of said seats or increasing access to vocational education.
Learn your history. Back in the 70s, the coalitions against Bakke were primarily supported by a multiracial working class. Today's "PMC" are the benefits of the ROLLBACK of Affirmative Action - how else would their mediocre asses have gotten into school if not for institutional racism? (I mostly kid, but the opposition came from the professional suburbs, home of the New Right).
