He has perfected an aggressive new form of affirmative action relating to photo-opportunities: he is always surrounded by minorities, even when he is in the whitest of suburbs.

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Unless Google engages in some form of aggressive affirmative action (a concept that has lost favor, even among some liberals) in the distribution of Glass, what we will see on YouTube will be more from the point-of-view of the kinds of people we already know: celebrities, tech innovators, spoiled rich kids, etc.

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Affirmative action, no less than any other form of discrimination, is a bad idea which for a brief time made some sense.

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The U.S Supreme Court narrowly upheld the legislation in a 5-4 ruling in June of last year, with Chief Justice John Roberts controversially justifying his affirmative decision by claiming that the federal mandate is a form of a federal tax, which the government is within its rights to enact.

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