Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site weitek.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!spar!turtlevax!weitek!robertp From: robertp@weitek.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Discrimination Message-ID: <198@weitek.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-May-85 13:49:20 EDT Article-I.D.: weitek.198 Posted: Wed May 29 13:49:20 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 31-May-85 06:05:49 EDT References: <482@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> <436@sftri.UUCP> <1500@orca.UUCP> <2028@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca. Lines: 14 Keywords: race, needs tests In article <2028@sdcrdcf.UUCP>, barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes: > Here's a new idea: discriminate in favor of the upwardly mobile. What > counts isn't your amount of schooling/money but how much MORE > schooling/money (adjusted for degree,$ inflation) you have than your > parents. > It should be just as workable as the other two. And might > have its own peculiar advantages. > --Lee Gold Why discriminate at all? I realize that thinking of people as individuals and the concept of individual rights are not popular in net.women, but all the bigotry, counter-bigotry, and counter-counter-bigotry in net.women is getting tiresome.