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From: sm@cadre.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: White greed
Message-ID: <336@cadre.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 09:41:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 09:41:46 1985
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References: <170@nybcb.UUCP> <6545@rochester.UUCP> <959@reed.UUCP>
Reply-To: sm@cadre.ARPA (Sean McLinden)
Organization: Decision Systems Lab., Univ. of Pgh.
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Summary: 

In article <959@reed.UUCP> ellen@reed.UUCP writes:

>...				  Although it may be true on an
>individual basis that one is not responsible nor descended from
>those responsible, it is also true on a general basis that,
>*generally* speaking, the present, *generally* higher,
>income/class/position/opportunities of the white majority in
>America is a result of the *general* oppression of minority
>groups in the past.

I'm not sure that all of those qualifications doesn't make the sentence
meaningless but for the sak of argument, suppose it isn't. Then
PROVE IT. I'm not saying that the point is not valid, it may be.
But if we are going to base a social and societal policy on the
premise you are suggesting, I want something besides opinion.

Personally, I would feel better if we could rely on a universal desire
to do good for others. But, of course, that probably doesn't exist,
either.

Sean McLinden