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- From: gpriores@oracle.com (gordon prioreschi)
- Subject: Re: Affirmative action is dead
- In-Reply-To: mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com's message of 21 Dec 92 18:52:18 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:43:45 GMT
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- In article <1h53p2INNqpq@spim.mti.sgi.com> mpolen@suntory.mti.sgi.com (Mike Polen) writes:
- >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.
-
- The underlying assumption here is, of course, that AA is
- "automatically" needed to protect every minority group.
-
- Not to mention that I will bet you dollars to donuts that the moment
- somebody advocates affirmative action to protect _whites_ is the
- moment we hear the first anti-AA sentiments from certain segments of
- the liberal camp.
-
- Cordially,
-
- -g
-