Sports Media Suddenly Discover Fallacies Of Affirmative Action
By Jay Maxson | May 19, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Suddenly progressives have become aware that affirmative action is demeaning to minorities. Liberal sports writers from SB Nation and the ESPN blog known as The Undefeated are surprisingly ripping an NFL proposal to elevate the draft positions of teams hiring minority coaches and general managers, amid charges of engaging in affirmative action. A Deadspin writer also shreds the idea of allowing teams third-round draft incentives for minority hiring in the aftermath of minority assistant coaches like Kansas City's Eric Bieniemy (in photo) getting passed over for head coaching jobs.
An SB Nation writer who goes by Ryland B. says there's so much wrong with the NFL's idea of improving the third-round draft positions of teams hiring black coaches, general managers or women. Sounding like a conservative opposed to affirmative action, he says the NFL is making the Rooney Rule -- a league requirement for teams with coaching and general manager vacancies to include minorities in the interview process -- worse.:
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