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  2. Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!hpscit.sc.hp.com!cupnews0.cup.hp.com!news1.boi.hp.com!hp-pcd!hp-vcd!dmunroe
  3. From: dmunroe@vcd.hp.com (Dave Munroe)
  4. Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
  5. Sender: news@vcd.hp.com (News user)
  6. Message-ID: <C18Jpq.DK1@vcd.hp.com>
  7. Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:15:26 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan20.030809.13484@bbxrbk> <1993Jan20.180733.14051@igor.tamri.com> <1993Jan21.001948.11789@bbxrbk>
  9. Organization: Hewlett-Packard
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  11.  
  12. russ@bbxrbk (Russ Kepler) writes:
  13.  
  14. > - if it was female, black, vet and disabled it would have been
  15. >hired to count the paperclips if necessary *because it helped the
  16. >numbers*.  
  17.  
  18. I think that's called "symbolism over substance".  The very people
  19. who are saying race and sex shouldn't matter in hiring, enact policies
  20. where it *does* matter.
  21.  
  22. (that's paraphrasing Rush Limbaugh, who I don't always agree with)
  23.  
  24. -Dave
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