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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination
Message-ID: <182@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 13:21:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 13:21:24 1985
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> Carl Deitrick
> >	So, why do *I* have to pay for something *I* didn't do?  *I* didn't
> > hold any slaves, *I* didn't lynch any black people in the South,
> 
> No, but your family 130 years ago probably wore some cotton clothing.
> 
> > *I* didn't force any Orientals into ghettos in San Francisco, *I* didn't put
> > the phrase "No Irish Need Apply" in help wanted ads, 
> 
> No, but we all profitted from the cheap labor used to build the 
> transcontinental railroad, and who would choose such dangerous and difficult 
> work but that they could find no other.
> 
> > *I* didn't block any women from the workplace,
> 
> No, but artificially low wages for women in factories and service jobs and other
> jobs "suitable" for women keep costs down for you.
> 
> > *I* didn't sweat any illegal aliens in unsafe working conditions,
> 
> No, but you buy food and products now that are cheap because of these still
> extant unsafe working conditions.
> 
> > *I* didn't do any of the things people cite as the reasons for this reverse
> > discrimination.
> 
> You can only say this out of your ignorance.  (see above)  You benefit from
> their effects.
> 
> > I hadn't even been born when most of these things were happening. So why do 
> > *I* have to pay? 
> 
> Why don't you grow up and look outside the world contained in your skin.
> 
> L S Chabot   ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot   chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa

All of L S Chabot's remarks about how Carl Deitrick benefitted apply to
*everyone* in America today --- food and products are cheap for everyone,
not just white males.  The benefits of the railroads accrue to us today
regardless of race and sex.  Why then, are white males subject to special
discrimination?