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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
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Subject: Re: Discrimination and AA
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Date: Wed, 12-Jun-85 13:58:09 EDT
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> Supposing that affirmative action is "racism"
> according to your favorite definition of the term, how does that
> prove that AA is wrong? 
    Because a lot of people on the net think that racism is always wrong.

> (When the US fought Nazi violence in WW2
> with violence, it was still violence.  Was the US morally wrong to do
> so? 
    No, because most people think that violence is justified in some 
circumstances.

> 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.  

    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?  

> Richard Carnes
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Jeff Sonntag
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