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Ames presented a different legal question, but it arrived in the midst of a broader backlash—one that treats efforts to correct exclusion as new forms of favoritism and casts civil rights laws as weapons in a zero-sum war over opportunity.

"It's a zero-sum game," Liam Kerr, a Democratic strategist, told Politico.

That adaptation, I learned, is far more likely to take place by forming new communities, new societies, and new kinds of families than it is by destroying each other in a zero-sum game.

To him, all of life is zero-sum.

When non-targets of diversity initiatives believe DEI is a zero-sum game, with “others” winning at their expense, they can become antagonistic toward employees of color.