Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site looking.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.social,net.women,net.flame Subject: Re: Discrimination and Affirmative Action Message-ID: <276@looking.UUCP> Date: Fri, 31-May-85 00:00:00 EDT Article-I.D.: looking.276 Posted: Fri May 31 00:00:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 06:29:40 EDT References: <338@unc.UUCP> Organization: Looking Glass Software, Waterloo, Ont Lines: 17 Xref: watmath net.politics:9163 net.social:571 net.women:5399 net.flame:10195 Summary: Affirmative Action attempts to encourage the hiring of minorities who aren't represented in the workforce according to their %age of the population. To do this it must: a) Split the workforce into contingents, ie. white vs. black b) Request that this dividing line be used as a criteria in hiring. I don't care what the goal or effect of these laws is. The fact remains is that they treat me as a white man before treating me as a person and they treat a black man as a black man before a person. I will always maintain that my skin colour and other non-competence related characteristics should not be considered in passing judgement on me. Anyone who states otherwise is a racist by most definitions of that word. I don't care what their goal is, they are still racists. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473