An important embryonic moment came in 2014, in the fight against a legislative proposal in California called SCA-5, which would essentially reintroduce race-based affirmative action in higher education in the state.
"In India, caste-based 'reservation' is essentially a form of affirmative action where India sets aside quotas to help disadvantaged minorities," Andy explained, "It's very similar to what we do in the US with race-based admissions, often called 'affirmative action.'".
That is to say that in the minds of the average American it exists in the realm of other divisive social issues from abortion to affirmative action, essentially political "luxury" issues if you're worried about your house going into foreclosure.
The campaign would encourage every business owner to encourage her company to pledge to devote 1percentt of its outsourcing budget to marginalized workers; essentially, it's an affirmative action program for global poverty reduction with no cost to the end buyer.
In 2013, in Fisher v. University of Texas, the Justices essentially kicked the issue of affirmative action in college admissions down the road.
Sofie Karasek, another EROC member, similarly hopes affirmative consent -- essentially replacing "no means no" with "only yes means yes" -- "won't be so revolutionary anymore, but it will be the standard".
(Witness the overturning of Ms Sotomayor's decision in Ricci, in which the Supreme Court reversed its previous affirmative-action rulings, essentially adopting a new rule).
The Harvard undergraduate student government has gone on record endorsing the Our Harvard Can Do Better platform, which includes adopting an "affirmative consent" standard -- essentially "only yes means yes" rather than "no means no" -- in defining sexual assault.
Those numbers essentially flipped for caucasian students; some 66 percent opposed affirmative action to 19percentt supporting.
Hundreds of schools are using affirmative consent standards in their codes of conduct, essentially replacing "no means no" with "only yes means yes".
