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From: mls@whutt.UUCP (SIEMON)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Bias on IQ tests
Message-ID: <3104@whutt.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 88 15:03:19 GMT
References: <3943@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <73600018@uiucdcsp> <48986@sun.uucp> <50475@sun.uucp>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Summary: I think so

In article <50475@sun.uucp>, livesey@sun.uucp (Jon Livesey) writes:
> 
> 	If parents don't want to know how their children are doing, then they 
> are fools.  If they consent to having their children 'condemned' to anything, 
> then they are worse than fools.
> 
I tend to think, rather, that it's the majority voting for Maggie that are the
fools.  Since legitimacy in a "democratic" polity requires an assumption of
"consent" by the defeated party, many parents may well be in the position of
(forced) consent to precisely that.  The political defense of privilege is
ALWAYS done at the expense of those without the priveleges.

Jon, we realize from your postings that you fervently defend the Thatcherite
position; many others do not -- and the discussion surely belongs somewhere
else (soc.politics.misc?) than sci.misc.

-- 
Michael L. Siemon
contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories
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