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From: rossiter@cornell.UUCP (David G. Rossiter)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.jokes
Subject: Re: Affirmative Action, Reverse Discrimination
Message-ID: <322@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 13:03:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 13:03:47 1985
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Summary: 

In article <1295@amdahl.UUCP> gam@amdahl.UUCP (G A Moffett) writes:
>I heard this the other day, attributed to an airline pilot:
>
>	"Remember, next time you're flying at 30,000 feet,
>	 that the guy piloting that 747 may not necessarily
>	 be the best person qualified to fly the plane, but
>	 got hired to fulfill a quota requirement."
>-- 
>Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam

That's right... for the first 50 or so years of aviation, he was hired
because he was a white male, thereby fufilling a very simple quota system:
all us, no them.  Grow up.

David Rossiter / CS Dep't / Cornell University / Ithaca / NY / 14850 / USA
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