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- From: radzy@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (T. O. Radzykewycz)
- Subject: Re: Women and Men Witches
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.165134.20765@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 16:51:34 GMT
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- cortese@skid.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
- > Two groups of people are running a race, one free and the other with
- > ankle hobbles on. After the race is half over, you take the hobbles
- > off, and tell the second group to start running. Of course, they are
- > about three laps behind the first group. What do you do? You pick up
- > the group that wore the hobbles and plop them down next to the first
- > that has been running free all this time. THAT is a fair race.
-
- No, it still isn't a fair race. Once the hobbles were put on in
- the first place, the only way to get a fair race is to take the hobbles
- off, wait a few days for the runners to get back in shape after their
- efforts, and then run the race fairly from the beginning.
-
- Of course, that can't happen in real life. Face it, there HAS been
- descrimination in the past, and there's no way to change or eliminate
- that descrimination. We *do* need to have some affirmative action,
- but we need to be *constantly* on guard to make sure that the
- *REVERSE DISCRIMINATION* (embodied in affermative action) does not
- continue beyond the point that it's necessary.
-
- If anyone believes that affirmative action is NOT discrimination,
- then that person is very deluded. Statements like Janis' imply
- that AA is not descrimination, when it really is.
-
- Blessings: may unnecessary evils never happen, and necessary evils
- never cause you harm.
-
- -- radzy
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- | An it harm none,
- T. O. Radzykewycz | do as ye will.
- The Incredible Radical Cabbage |
- | "Just pray for a
- radzy@cogsci.berkeley.edu | tough hide and a
- | tender heart."
- | -- Ruth Graham
- ------------------------------------------------------------
- Tribal Mother was old, and lay ill on a bed of moss and
- fern. Her hair was long and grey. Her face was very
- wrinkled. Tamura'nun-pa thought: How beautiful you
- are, Mother, so old and wise.
-