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From: cmfaltz@phoenix.princeton.edu (Christine Marie Faltz)
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Subject: Re: A Complaining Sighty
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Date: 19 Jun 91 18:26:04 GMT
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Amazing how someone could harangue Marshall Flax for making argument for
my use of the word 'sighty' -- note the apostrophes, folks; it wasn't
meant to "belittle" anyone -- can imply that Marshall is a leftist,
socially ignorant and a radical.  Does this mean that anyone who is a
leftist is a radical and socially ignorant?  I am a libertarian, and as
such, some ofmy beliefs are categorized "leftist" while others are
declared "on the right."  Although I agree that hiring by quota rather
than ability is disgusting, this aspect of affirmative action can be
blamed much more easily on the white do-gooders than the minorities they
 were "helping".  After all at the time of the civil rights movement,
many of those who beieved fundamentally that black and white were equal
held the contradicting belief that blacks could not get their own jobs
if offered a good education.
	Let's talk about that "superior" position we minorities
supposedly have in what the good Doctor calls a "contest."  Have you any
idea how bad inner-city schools are?  The merit which children are born
with is being butchered by teacher bias, poor curricula, drugs (imported
by rich pushers, usually the Mafia) and violent crime.  Women are raped
at four times the rate they were raped fifteen years ago.  One out of
four black men is dead before the age of twenty-five.  Violence against
gays andlesbians is rising dramatically -- these people are generally
tortured before they are killed or left to die.  
	This is not social ignorance, let me assureyou.  If you desire
statistics or resources for this or any other information, I will gladly
comply.  
	Minorities are still minorities in this country; let's not fool
ourselves.  Yes, I do agree that there are "bad" things that have been
brought on by civil rights bills.  Their good far outweighs the former,
however, and the more we are able to accept one another and believe it
when one of us says we are capable, the sooner such laws will not be
necessary.  
	Doctor, please keep in mind that ad hominem never gets you
anywhere -- except back to the Dark Ages, perhaps.
Christine
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