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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:12:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.165134.20765@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> radzy@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (T. O. Radzykewycz) writes:
- >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.
- >
- It isn't. I'm surprised that you think it is. When the butcher's thumb
- has been on the scale forever, when he weighs your meat, and you realize
- it, then it's time to put *your* thumb on the scale to *balance* his.
- *THAT* is what affirmative action is. When the counts are closer to even,
- *then* you can take off both thumbs off.
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- mark
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