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- Path: sparky!uunet!s5!sethb
- From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
- Subject: Re: nkill
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.232020.17441@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: my opinions only
- References: <1992Nov17.021554.28446@adobe.com> <1992Nov17.222507.26632@fid.morgan.com> <1992Nov18.015903.10936@adobe.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:20:20 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Nov18.015903.10936@adobe.com> mmwang@adobe.com (Michael Wang) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.222507.26632@fid.morgan.com> sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov17.021554.28446@adobe.com> mmwang@adobe.com
- >>(Michael Wang) writes:
-
- [The story so far: A was discriminated against earlier. C is more
- qualified than A.]
-
- >>A can be compensated by the company for the discrimination. Why
- >>should C suffer because somebody else discriminated?
- >>
- >>More importantly, suppose they now grant the preferential treatment to
- >>A. C has now been a victim of discrimination; in 1994, the position
- >>opens up again and now D is more qualified. Should C get it anyway?
- >>When does this end?
- >
- >But what if A really wants the promotion because of the new and
- >interesting challenges that it presents, etc., etc?
-
- Oh, well, that's different then. If A "really wants the promotion"
- then A should get it, even though C is more qualified. (Does anybody
- really believe this drivel?)
-
- > Suing for monetary
- >compensation only would not give her the job that she wants. Without
- >the promotion, she may never be able to climb further up the corporate
- >ladder.
-
- Why should she be able to climb further up the corporate ladder, since
- C is more qualified to do so?
-
- > Also, is it simply enough to use money to redress past
- >discrimination considering the fact that it is often very difficult to
- >prove?
-
- What does the difficulty of proof have to do with the correct redress?
- I never said that money is the only manner of redress; what I said is
- that C should not now be discriminated against because X discriminated
- against A in the past.
-
- Seth sethb@fid.morgan.com
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