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- From: beaver@castor.cs.psu.edu (Don Beaver)
- Subject: Re: Gender Discrimination
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:53:09 GMT
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- nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >
- > Both the New York Times and LA Times News services reported
- > over the weekend that when Bill Clinton was choosing an
- > Attorney General he limited his search to only women!
-
- > And what effect would this have on compliance with anti-dis-
- > crimination laws, knowing that the Justice Department itself
- > was run by someone chosen by a process that violates the very
- > statutes they are attempting to enforce?
-
- Yes, the public can indeed recognize that hiring an illegal immigrant
- is illegal -- creating an especially strong ethical problem for
- an Attorney General. But, you see, the public recognizes that
- discrimination against anybody *except* white males is an offense;
- thus there is no conflict for an Attorney General or a President
- who is outspokenly prejudiced. [sarcasm]
-
- I wonder whether it would make a difference to observe that Clinton's
- "ethical search methods" discriminated against African American men, Native
- American men, Hispanic men, Asian men, and physically-challenged men,
- among others?
-
- Don
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