Language is twisted, falsehoods are common, and hypocrisy reigns.
To do so is to take a political position via dishonest language. Frank discussion becomes impossible if every hard idea to it is replaced with an unclear and politically-loaded euphemism. Even opponents of racial preferences eventually are forced to cave in to such usage, when ethically-challenged journalism becomes so pervasive as it has on this issue. The passage of Prop. 209 did not eliminate Affirmative Action in California, it eliminated racial preferences. My department at San Diego State University operates under the same Affirmative Action guidelines it did before Prop. 209.