Support for Voice to Parliament dropped 5pc in a month - RedBridge poll, page-43

I agree with you on merit but the problem is that affirmative action has appeared to show good outcomes for oppressed groups.
Need to be able to show these policies do more harm than good… but not easy


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action


A 2017 study of temporary federal affirmative action regulation in the United States estimated that the regulation "increases the black share of employees over time: in 5 years after an establishment is first regulated, the black share of employees increases by an average of 0.8 percentage points. Strikingly, the black share continues to grow at a similar pace even after an establishment is deregulated. [The author] argue that this persistence is driven in part by affirmative action inducing employers to improve their methods for screening potential hires.