[TulliusCicero]

> Affirmative action isn't racial discrimination, it's an attempt to correct for racial discrimination.

It's very obviously both these things.

It's an attempt to try to compensate for implicit/less visible racial discrimination, with very explicit racial discrimination enshrined into policy.

Not saying it's always a terrible idea, but pretending that it's not racial discrimination is exactly the kind of gaslighting discussed in the article.