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Subject: Re: Discrimination and affirmative action
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 10:01:13 EDT
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> >I suggest that you read the ongoing debate in net.women, before you
> >claim that AA "...does not attempt to assign guilt or merit based on
> >membership in a group..." --- a great many of the people over there
> >have done *exactly* that, saying that all white males should have
> >less because of what white males have done in the past.
> 
>     But who has been dumping that `guilt' crap in net.women?
> 
>     The opponents of Affirmative Action!

    Since this article was cross-posted to net.politics, and some of you
net.politics readers might not have been following the action in net.women
recently, I just thought I'd let you know that the last statement above
is false.  The person who thought that all white males should share in
some collective blame for the actions of some white men *was* arguing in
favor of affirmative action.
> 
> -michael
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Jeff Sonntag
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