Word: tokenistic
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Other students jumped to Epps' defense, claiming that the letter was unfair and unfounded. From what we know about Epps, we tend to agree. There was nothing improper about his actions during Junior Parents' Weekend; Epps shouldn't be expected to unquestioningly capitulate to tokenist demands. We can only guess, and hope, that Epps' alleged penchant for speaking in foreign languages comes from an earnest, if slightly misguided, attempt to make minority students feel comfortable. But we can say that the two Epps initiatives the AAA presidents so confidently disparage, the handbook and the audit, are at least genuine attempts...
Members of the Spartacus Youth League a Trotskyist organization, also attended the meeting and denounced Affirmative Action as "a tokenist program at its most meaningless...
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