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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Affirmative Action/Discrimination
Message-ID: <1340142@acf4.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 10:49:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 10:49:00 1985
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>/* vip@philabs.UUCP (V. I. P.) / 11:22 am  Jun  3, 1985 */

>Simply, figure out the dollar amount owed the
>survivors/decendants of forced labor (slavery), and make
>payment.  Let's call it compensation for wages deferred.

That sounds great, as long as you extract payment from those who did the
forcing, or their estates, or from those to whom their wealth was transferred.
Don't forget about discounting for future value!

>. . . no more bitching and moaning from
>privileged classes about reverse discrimination (which I
>don't really believe can exist).

Are you arguing that the phrase "reverse discrimination" is inappropriate
for describing that which it is used to describe in common usage
(or, for that matter, for describing anything), or are you saying that
it is not possible for an employer to hire a less qualified member of a
minority group instead of a more qualified member of a majority group
(whatever that is) because he/she is a member of a minority group?

>					Brian Day

						Mike Sykora