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From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Affirmative Action, Reverse Discrimination
Message-ID: <467@lll-crg.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 19-Mar-85 21:06:24 EST
Article-I.D.: lll-crg.467
Posted: Tue Mar 19 21:06:24 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Mar-85 01:47:25 EST
References: <833@wucs.UUCP> <519@whuxl.UUCP>
Reply-To: muffy@lll-crg.UUCP (Muffy Barkocy)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group
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Summary: 

In article <519@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:
>*THIS* is the reason for Affirmative Action: to counter people's
>natural prejudices about blacks and women so that they begin to think:
>          tim sevener   whuxl!orb

I can't say I like this phrasing.  *What*, pray tell, is a "natural"
prejudice?  Is this to say that it is natural for people to be pre-
judiced, at least in some cases?

						Muffy