In challenging some common arguments against affirmative action, Oluo highlights once more that workplace inequality and affirmative action are both intersectional—women also face systemic barriers to opportunity and benefit from efforts to equalize the power imbalance that centuries of patriarchy created. Oluo reminds the reader that affirmative action isn’t designed to
create privilege (an unfair advantage), but rather to
correct privilege: the goal is always equality, nothing more.