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From: tron@fluke.UUCP (Peter Barbee)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 15:30:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 15 15:30:22 1985
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>	So, why do *I* have to pay for something *I* didn't do?  *I* didn't
>hold any slaves, *I* didn't force 

Because it is in your (and my) best interests to live in a country (and world)
where everyone is "equal" (at least a world where there is not discrimination).
Because at the present time in this country there is still rampant
discrimination, both the overt discrimination of "Irish need not apply" and the
insidious discrimination of a girl's father influencing her away from the
career she may be best suited for and towards a less ideal, but stereotypical
career.  These are just examples, there are many more, in fact everyone of us
are where we are based, in part, on others expectations.  I would like those
expectations to be based on who I am, and what I do best, not on my genes.
I do not feel that this is a realistic hope as long as ghettos are
predominatly black, or as long as it is considered revolutionary to have a
woman president.

I also am not willing to wait until the current crisis just disappears, you
see, I don't think it will.  I believe that prejudice breeds prejudice.
Therefore what we need to do is eliminate prejudice by eliminating the cause
of it and the outward signs of it.  "Reverse discrimination" is attempting
to do just that.  I agree that it doesn't always look like it works, and that
it can even be counterproductive.

Do you have a better idea?

Sincerely,

Peter B