Should the SDMB have an affirmative action policy for the conservative minority?

[Bricker]

As I explained in 2009, when discussing preferentially hiring black teachers for majority-black student populations:

@Bricker

The intent of the program, though, in this case is not to give an advantage to the job applicant – it’s to get a job applicant with a particular set of characteristics.

In other words, if I were casting a movie about the life of Thurgood Marshall, I would audition black actors for the part – not to give some advantage to black actors to make up for all the discrimination in Hollywood, but because I needed a black actor to play the part of Thurgood Marshall.

In my view, this is not fairly described as “affirmative action.”

I believe describing it as affirmative action elides this distinction.