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From: stevesu@bronze.UUCP (Steve Summit)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Open letter to netters on reverse discrimination
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Date: Sun, 4-Sep-83 22:07:46 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep  4 22:07:46 1983
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Rather than getting incredibly, flamingly upset at the
reverse-discriminatory meeting that was held, a much better
response would be to look at your feelings at that moment and
realize that that is exactly what women (and minority racial
or religious groups) have been living with all this time.

I don't like reverse discrimination and affirmative action,
either.  I wish they weren't necessary and I wish they weren't
here.  But you have to realize that they are no worse than what
has come before.  It is one thing to say that "of course I'm in
favor of the women's movement and support it in every way as
long as it doesn't inconvenience me" and quite another thing to
be truly sympathetic to what has happened in the past, how
pervasive the problem is, and how much effort it will take on a
LOT of people's parts to eradicate the various prejudices that
have been engrained into our culture.

						Steve Summit