This paper argues against the affirmative action legislation contained in Assembly Bill (AB) 1725, putting forth the position that affirmative action policies in faculty hiring and student admissions represent de facto racial and gender discrimination. The paper criticizes the purely formal language of AB 1725, arguing that it blurs the distinctions between disciplines and that it seeks to make comprehensive such divergent themes as critical thinking and writing across the curriculum. Suggesting that colleges are dominated by the doctrine of moral and political relativism, which assumes that what is right or true is relative to the individual, and which thus makes colleges incapable of imposing any traditional or orthodox values on others, the paper argues that this professed indifference in fact masks a covert zeal for the spread of repressive egalitarianism. The conclusion calls for an end to affirmative action regulations and the establishment of color-blind policies in educational hiring and admissions as a true reflection of societies commitment to equal rights. (PAA)