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From: fagin@ucbvax.ARPA (Barry Steven Fagin)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.politics,net.social
Subject: Re: The funny thing about the opponents of AA
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Date: Sat, 15-Jun-85 15:48:32 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 15 15:48:32 1985
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In article <482@ttidcc.UUCP> regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) writes:
>
>
>To all you people out there who oppose AA, on whatever grounds:
>
>One of these days, it is going to be your lover, or your best friend
>who is turned down, passed over, unhired, etc., on the basis of sex
>or race.
>
>Assuming, just for the sake of argument, that you are male, and the
>person in question is female, and you are married, that discrimination is
>going to affect your ability to buy the home of your (collective) choice,
>to send your kids to the school of your (collective) choice, the afforda-
>bility of taking the time off to launch your own business, etc., etc., etc.
>
>_You_ may never be discriminated against.   But you do not live in a vacuum.

My wife just graduated from law school, and is looking for work after
being denied a position at a law firm where she worked over the summer.
Because she's not working yet, we're still living in a small apartment
and indeed cannot afford the home of our choice.  Our childrearing plans
are also uncertain.  Whether she did not get a job offer because
of her sex we will never know, but neither my wife nor I would even
consider the ludicrous thought that we have some right to dictate in
*ANY* way the hiring practices of a prospective employer.

The implication from the above posting is that we'd support AA if we
saw that we could benefit from it.  At least in our case, that is
untrue.

--Barry
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Barry Fagin @ University of California, Berkeley