That same society at a different time determined slavery, jim crow laws and other prejudicial treatments were once okay just as it did affirmative action. An appeal to authority or populism doesn&#x27;t make it good or right. It merely makes it lawful and&#x2F;or socially acceptable.<p>There are many widely published and peer reviewed theories that turned out to be wrong after implementing them and empirically seeing that they are imperfect. There are scientific theories and there are non-scientific theories and the one you&#x27;ve put forth is squarely in the camp of non-scientific theory, which typically are hypotheses that lack the ability to be disproved.<p>I would like to think we can do better than replacing one system of prejudices with another. We&#x27;ve seen the pendulum swing both ways enough time now to better predict where the ideas contributing to momentum of the pendulum will lead to an over-correction and novel injustices.