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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: 29 Dec 1992 17:33:15 GMT
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- gordon prioreschi) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- Who the hell do you think is in the "liberal camp?" The first time I
- heard the statement about whites needing AA, was in a speech by the
- head of the Houston chapter of the Anti-Defamation League.
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