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The Patriot Games Are a Celebration of Affirmative Action
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Because there is an irony in the Patriot Games: it takes affirmative action by geography and sex and applies it to an America 250 celebration.
Getty ImagesWhat's Really Going OnYet the Patriot Games begin with two decisions made before the selection committee watches a single application video.
The reason is that the Patriot Games are intended to be a national celebration, an attempt to put the whole American map on television as a shared festivity.
That is not what the Patriot Games are doing: the games are honest about their quotas.
At the Patriot Games, sex sorts the contestants into two fields and geography determines who may enter them.