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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
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Subject: affirmative action
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Re the question "Why do _I_ have to pay because of something that
happened hundreds of years ago?"

Answer:(possibly not a very good one)  "Because the government says so."

Nobody said that affirmative action guidelines are fair.  The claim is that
affirmative action guidelines were put in place 'in the interest of fairness.'
Which is a different thing.

None of the people who were discriminated against for hundreds of years did
anything special that deserved discrimination, either.  They aren't doing
anything right now that is particularly worthy of discrimination, but it's
still happening.  So, your answer is above.

This _isn't_ and equal world yet.  Some white males now get the short end of
the stick.  It isn't personal, ya know.  It's never been _personal_.  The
only real advantage is that affirmative action has the goal of eventually
equalizing the workplace by a fait accompli.  It's not really working to
change attitudes, since laws can't really ever do that.

Sorry it upsets you.  Sorta.