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From: shor@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
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Subject: Re: Discrimination
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 18:06:07 EDT
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> From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
>> Why do *I*, as a white adult male of Northern European descent, have to pay
>> for what *someone else* did more than 200 years ago?... 
>
>    *You* oughta be grateful for what *you* have received and stop
>    complaining. Perhaps it's true that material well being does breed
>    GREED. Pity.

Amen to that.

One of life's little ironies is that the bozos who oppose affirmative action
on the grounds that it's rewarding {race, gender} rather than skill happen
to be same same bozos unwilling to surrender their white male privilege.

-- 
Melinda Shore 
University of Chicago Computation Center

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