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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Discrimination and Affirmative Action: Reply to Sykora
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 14:51:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 14:51:00 1985
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>/* carnes@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Richard Carnes) /  6:21 pm  Jun  4, 1985 */

> . . . and nothing mobilizes stronger
>ideological opposition than an idea that threatens the privileged
>position of the powerful, such as the well-off white males whose
>interests the Reagan Administration looks after.

Do you really think it is "well off" white males who fear minority
advancement?  On the contrary, it is poor white males who fear this.

>You're right that my rhetoric was getting out of hand in that
>article; but let me point out that you and others have referred to
>affirmative action as "government-promoted racism."  It's both absurd
>and insulting to its supporters to call a program "racist" whose
>whole purpose is to attack racial, ethnic, and sexual prejudice and
>their effects.

Perhaps you are using "rascism" to mean something different than Clayton
is.  The point is not that AA is "rascist," but that it is wrong for
the government to promote the interests of a particular racial group
(whether or not you choose to call such promotion "rascism").

>Richard Carnes, ihnp4!gargoyle!carnes

						Mike Sykora