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- From: mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen)
- Newsgroups: alt.discrimination,alt.politics.correct,alt.president.clinton,talk.politics.misc
- Subject: Re: Affirmative action is dead
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:52:18 GMT
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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- |> > I predict that what is now called 'AA' will eventually degenerate into a
- |> > permanent policy of quota-based hiring, with continuing refinement as to
- |> > which groups are entitled to which-sized quotas. I point again to South
- |> > Africa as a precedent for a society which bases everything on race, and I
- |> > suggest again that this is not the example we want to follow.
- |>
- Actually, South Africa is a precedent for a society which bases everything
- on protecting the power of a racial minority. AA will be needed to protect
- whites by the year 2010.
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- These opinions are usually my own, sometimes my dog's,
- occasionaly my (grown) children's, never my employer's.
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