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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: soc.feminism
Subject: Re: Affirmative Action
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Date: 9 Oct 89 08:52:38 GMT
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In article <945@uvaarpa.virginia.edu> scl@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU (Stephen C. Losen) writes:
<And the big, bad government goes around stomping individual freedoms,
<while poor, defenseless corporations are thwarted in their innocent
<t sort of policy champion the cause of individual rights?
<Mr. Weiner obviously prefers corporate-type collectives over government-
<type collectives.  I have no problem with that.  But please don't try to
<justify such personal preferences on the grounds of individual rights.

I'd like to make an important distinction between governments and corporations.
If you work in a corporation, you have the ultimate right to quit. With
the government collective, you can't quit (see China, East Germany).
Corporations don't use physical violence to further their ends, governments
do. I work for a corporation. If they require me to do something I don't
want to, I will quit and they can't do a *thing* about it.