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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.flame
Subject: Re: Discrimination
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Date: Tue, 11-Jun-85 10:20:12 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 11 10:20:12 1985
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>{jj@alice}

>The point is that AA is a violation of the premise
>"innocent until proven guilty" and that it presumes
>I'm guilty.  (As does Mike Ellis, and someone else who
>calls me a Bozo, and so on.)

    AA is neither a reward nor a punishment. It is an attempt
    to correct the disparity inherent in our conformist society.

    However, if you MUST feel guilty in order to help someone
    in need, let me remind you that because of our society's
    bias towards white males, your struggle to attain
    your present situation was eased due to the lessened
    competition.

    Furthermore, many goods and services that you make use of
    are cheaper to you because they are provided by relatively
    underpaid minorities. Meanwhile, the children of those
    underpaid workers are hungrier and sicker than their
    overprivileged white counterparts.

    I doubt that you care..

>TEDDY BEARS HAVE LIMITED PATIENCE! THEY DO EVENTUALLY GET HUNGRY!

    Poor boy! My heart bleeds for you..

-michael