[folknor]

I really don't mean to be obnoxious or disagree just for the sake of saving face or whatever - I really just don't understand how you can claim that those passages are not an example of someone being denied a team position because they were explicitly favoring minority-candidates instead.

I understand that it's not proof of it, like I said, and I understand that there's no direct evidence supporting that claim.

What I'm saying is that the email they embed there is supporting evidence of the narrative outlined in those paragraphs.

And I don't understand how you can say "no evidence supporting this allegation is included" then.

At this point, I'm not sure how to phrase myself to get my point across either - english is a second language, so please excuse me.

I'm quite certain that we are in agreement - what we probably disagree with is my distilling this down to the single sentence that I did initially.

But even that is a sentence distilled in good faith on my part, I don't feel that I misrepresented it that badly, and it's the kind of sentence I'd use around the dinner table until someone wanted to dig further into it.