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From: hsgj@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Dan Green)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.sci
Subject: Re: Why are there so few [female|black] physicists?
Message-ID: <638@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Thu, 17-Jul-86 18:05:51 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 17 18:05:51 1986
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In article <502@midas.UUCP> jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes:
>All very righteous and high-minded, but would you really feel just as
>insulted if you were given a chance you didn't deserve as you would if
>you were denied a chance you deserved? I sure wouldn't, and I would be
>very skeptical of anyone else saying they would.

   Would you?  I sure as hell wouldn't take a job that I wasn't qualified
for.  You can't fool people for long if you're ignorant, and all you'll
end up doing is making yourself look stupid.  Since this is a "why aren't
there many (minority) so-and-so's" discussion, if you are a minority and
you take a job that you are unqualified for, you not only make yourself
look bad, you make your race look bad.  You get the old "see, I told you
that we shouldn't have hired that (place your favorite minority here)! "
-- 
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