"When (EV drivers) starting paying more than gas, it strikes as reverse discrimination, " Friedland says.

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In a 1995 speech, Clinton vowed to "mend" affirmative action, not "end" it and to establish guidelines that would help disadvantaged firms compete more readily with their better-established counterparts without imposing "reverse discrimination" on white-owned businesses.

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Reverse discrimination is intended to help the poorest.

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