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From: robertp@weitek.UUCP (Robert Plamondon)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Discrimination
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 19:19:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 19:19:38 1985
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In article <2896@drutx.UUCP>, butch@drutx.UUCP (FreemanS) writes:
> After hearing some of the idiotic replies on this topic I felt that
> I had to add my two cents.  I've been hearing people say that they
> shouldn't be held responsible for something that happened 200 years
> ago.

Two can play at this game.  Of course, I am at a disadvantage because I
don't belong to any of the fashionable minorities.

Still, how much patronage will you give me for my female ancestors? I can
prove that exactly half of my ancestors were women, who are by your
definition members of an oppressed group.

How about my French peasant ancestors? Boy, were THEY oppressed! Or my
Scots and Irish ancestors -- the English oppressed them, then the Irish came
over to America, where the Americans oppressed them.

I should find the American descendants of Norman/English nobles and rob
them.  Or maybe keep their kids from getting jobs. Social justice and
affirmative action!

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		-- Robert Plamondon
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