[scarmig]

As an interesting thought experiment:

Suppose we created a national social graph, and gave each person a value in it. High prestige, high social access people automatically get a certain high rating, and other nodes are given fractional social access ratings dependent on their neighboring nodes. The devil's in the details here, but you get the idea.

Affirmative action could then be targeted depending on your level of social access. The less you have, the more affirmative action you get. This would allow for a lot more mixing of the social graph and result in a gradual leveling over time.

Is this appealing, in lieu of race-based affirmative action?

[t-writescode]

How would you go about selling and implementing this in a way that wouldn't be political suicide?