That's just wrong as a matter of historical fact. I feel fairly confident in asserting that race-based slavery constitutes a form of racism, and predates affirmative action by several centuries.

This is...almost certainly trolling, right?

Nope. Plenty of sincere MRAs in tech.

So everyone who doesn't believe in so called "positive discrimination" is an MRA automatically? Huh? You'll have to show me the logic you used to get from one statement to the other.

The word "discrimination" is loaded with an assumption that we are talking about a form of bigotry.

If I want to make a scholarship for kids interested in history, particularly if such kids are rare and poorly supported, I'm not being bigoted against other kids.

Affirmative action is not the reason racism exists. For example, slavery was a violently institutionalized form of racism. I am pretty sure slavery did not begin due to affirmative action.

Today, it is.

Also, if you want to sound smart, do the work. Excluding usa, most forms of slavery thought history was not based on skin color.

But, yeah, rest of the world, whatever.

So - before affirmative action, there was no racism, sexism, etc.?? Do you mean the behaviors commonly associated with those "-isms" did not exist? Or that society's attitudes towards those behaviors did not exist? Or. . .