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- From: Terry.Parks@launchpad.unc.edu (Terry Parks)
- Subject: Re: Institutional racism in education
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- >| Again, could you explain how giving a Blak worker with 20 years service
- >| preferences over a Caucasian worker with 5 years serivce benefits the
- >| Caucasian worker?
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- >Obviously, the Caucasian got the preference, did he not?
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- Obviously not.
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- >The *overriding* objection to AA is merit.
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- The objection to such as AA (at least my objection) is its racism and
- sexism basis (two institutions which I object to).
-
- >By explicitly renouncing
- >merit in talking about seniority, you're only talking about which
- >non-merit approach has a particular result -- and picking one that
- >whites do better at without a rational reason not to pick one
- >others do better at (AA).
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- The seniority issue is only brought up by the pro-racism side to cajole
- people into feeling good about racism by trying to convince them that
- racism is as ordinary and harmless as Uncle Bill working for
- General Motors.
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