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- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Subject: Re: Racist/Sexist Role Models
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- >Using your logic, there is no possible solution to the problems minorities face
- >in this country. If someone says that they want to increase the number of black
- >engineers
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- then they are racist.
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- s, then they are going to do something for blacks that they are not doing
- >for whites. Bias is commonly used to solve some of the country's problems.
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- And when it involves race it is racism and when it involves gender it is sexism.
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- Seniority
- >systems to help older workers, veteran preference to help former members of the
- >armed forces get adjusted, and on and on. I think that sometimes, bias is an acceptable
- >approach to solving a problem.
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- And when it involves race it is racism and when it involves gender it is sexism.
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