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From: cbd@iham1.UUCP (deitrick)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Dsicrimination Again
Message-ID: <357@iham1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-May-85 15:54:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 15 15:54:31 1985
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>> 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?  
>
>I don't think anyone's asking you to make retribution for something in which
>you weren't directly involved......
> 							.........So, things
>like EEO are not intended to penalize you in particular, they're intended to
>ensure that other groups get a fair crack at the things that have come so
>easily to white males for the last n (n being large) years........
>
>[Note:  no defense of EEO intended here -- I think it's a pretty abysmal
>    implementation, too ... ]
>-- 
>Melinda Shore 
>University of Chicago Computation Center

	Sorry, I don't agree.  Your reply is contradictory: You say I'm not
being asked to pay for what someone else did in the past, yet you claim I have
to give up my 'privileged' status, status I supposedly have because some other
white adult males did something in the past. I strongly resent the implication
that whatever I have was given to me because I happen to be white and male.
Nobody *gave* me anything. Whatever I have cost me a lot of very hard work and
God's own helping of self-discipline.
	If I sound angry, it's because I am.  The idea that I have to pay for
what someone else did in the past is simply NOT FAIR.  Discrimination based
on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin is NOT FAIR, regardless of
which direction it goes.
	No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.

					Carl Deitrick
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