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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Discrimination and AA
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Date: Fri, 14-Jun-85 10:31:01 EDT
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> > The only reasons
> > I can discern that net-posters keep saying that "AA = racism" are:
> > (1) to score debating points on the net (no difficult task), and (2)
> > to annoy liberals.  
> 
> (Sonntag)
> >    You've said this before, Rich.  Could you please post your definitions
> > of 'racism' and 'AA' so that we can see how they differ from normal usage
> > in order to clear up this disagreement?  
> 
> OK.  From the article on "Racism" in the *Encyclopedia of Philosophy*
> (an interesting article, BTW -- I recommend it to anyone with an
> interest in the subject):
> 
> 	RACISM is the doctrine that one group of men is morally or 
> 	mentally superior to another and that this superiority arises
> 	out of inherited biological differences.

    I've deleted a long list of other definitions Richard was kind enough
to include, all of which seem pretty similar to this one.

    O.K., Richard, I'll have to admit I was wrong.  I thought that one of
the definitions of 'racist' would be something like: 'discrimination on
the basis of race', but I was wrong.

    But AA programs which provide *more* than a fair shot (ie: quotas)
do force employers to discriminate on the basis of race, which, in my
book, is wrong.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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