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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.women,net.sci,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
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Date: Tue, 15-Jul-86 10:20:03 EDT
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In article <629@mhuxr.UUCP> mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (Damballah Wedo) writes:
>but that is not the primary intent. That is to permit this *large* class
>of citizens to claim their rightful place at the table of power, by removing
>the barriers that have been built all around them.

Nobody has a "right" to power over others.  It is doubly wrong to claim
such a "right" on the basis of race or sex.

>We happen to think it works fairly well. I think it is up to those who
>disagree to put forth their own proposal for a replacement.

I have proposed what needs to be done.  One aspect of that is that
there is zero objective value in a particular statistical ethnic
distribution as such.  There is great value in the recognition of
and support for individual rights, but AA does not accomplish this
and in fact is not consistent with it.