Foundational values are a political technology that lossily compresses ideology into something more memetic.

Listen, we already know you're a racist, you don't have to work so hard to make us hate you!

"when you control for applicant qualifications discounted for affirmative action, there is no net racial discrimination in the ___ sector"

I'm not sure I understand this right (which I imagine is the purpose of his phrasing), but is this basically saying "if you assume black people are less competent, there is no racial discrimination"?