There is a book is called “Unjust: Social Justice and the Ummaking of America” by Noah Rothman that provides an interesting perspective on the concept of reverse discrimination. The book discusses how in the author’s opinion, the “social justice” movement has over time morphed into a phenomenon that actually counteracts the intended effects of the movement. The idea isn’t new, as evidenced by the posts in this thread, but the way the author explains the concept in this book is very different than the typical way you will hear people try to explain reverse discrimination. Rather than oversimplifying the issue, he really delves into it from an historical standpoint and actually demonstrates the complexity of the issue. Now I tend to be one who gets pretty irritated when I hear people talking about reverse discrimination. But in reading the book I found that there are aspects of that point of view that are valid, or at least are worthy of consideration. If people aren’t willing to open themselves up to really trying to understand the opposing side’s point of view there will never be the ability to reach a consensus. Those in this thread who are so adamant that there is no legitimacy whatsoever to the claims of reverse discrimination need to consider the other perspective and the same goes for those who are adamant that the only solution to racial/gender/sexual orientation based initiatives in order to reach the goal of a color blind, merit based society is to remove all semblances of different or unique needs or perspectives of each group.

I highly recommend the book.