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Subject: Re: Watts gaffe: an uncomfortable truth - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 00:06:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 11 00:06:38 1983
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uicsl!preece    Oct  4 07:57:00 1983

	I find it interesting that the liberals who argue in favor of
	affirmative action, reverse discrimination, quotas, and
	who criticize Reagan for not hiring enough women, blacks,
	etc., are now screaming for Watt's termination for openly
	acknowledging his efforts to meet some quota of minority
	staffing.
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	Quite interesting, the liberals (those people who are against
	double barrel shotguns, etc.) have double barrel mouths.
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We (he said, assuming the mantle of liberaldom) would like to see the
staffing of Federal commissions balanced. We would like an administration
that saw nothing strange or remarkable about that balance. We would
like an administration that did not use insensitive language to
descibe classes of people. We would like an administration that did
not say "Look how noble I am: I let a woman, a black, etc., onto one
of my commissions."

As to the second author, he's strining for a snappy line. Liberals
as a group, and even gun control advocates, for the most part, have
nothing against double barrel shotguns (or even single barrel shotguns),
unless they've been sawed off to become handguns. We'd prefer to see
them registered and kept out of the hands of felons and the mentally
incompetent, but I don't think many of us ask for elimination of
reasonable sporting guns. I know people who hunt for a significant
portion of their annual meat consumption; I have no objection to
that, as long as they obey the rules on what they may take and when they
may take it.

As to liberals' mouths, we have generally tended to be a more softly
spoken, less obnoxious group than the opposition for whom the second
author, presumably, speaks. Referring to mouhts was, at the very least,
a foolish strategem when Mr. Watt's is once again full of his foot.

scott preece
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