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Subject: laundry list (non-discrimination policies)
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Date: 24 Jul 86 10:11:58 PDT (Thursday)
From: Hoffman.es@Xerox.COM
Subject: laundry list (non-discrimination policies)
To: wild@SUN.COM (Will Doherty)


        From: Will Doherty
        
        As these characteristics [race, religion, sex, 
        sexual orientation, etc.] become unimportant
        (at least as far as hiring, firing, etc.), 
        then we can forget about pushing for protective
        laws.  But we aren't there yet.

Well, we certainly aren't.  I proposed to do away with the "laundry
list" of prohibited discrimination categories in favor of policies
like, "Only job-related characteristics shall be considered in hiring,
firing, and promotion decisions."  But I readily admit this is
idealistic.

A further idealistic tenet of mine is that I help change the world
toward my ideal by, as far as possible, being idealistic in my life
and in my proposals.  :-)
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