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- From: gazit@duke.cs.duke.edu (Hillel Gazit)
- Newsgroups: alt.feminism
- Subject: Re: Damned Souls (was Re: Version Five)
- Message-ID: <726048602@lear.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 08:10:04 GMT
- References: <725976390@lear.cs.duke.edu> <C08roy.JFG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: gazit@cs.duke.edu (Hillel)
- Organization: Nefolet shel nemushot (Fallout of Wimps)
- Lines: 39
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- In article <C08roy.JFG@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) writes:
-
- >The government of Alabama was ordered to institute a *temporary* policy
- >of affirmative action, to amend for previous discrimination.
-
- "*temporary*"?!
-
- Look Lenore, affirmative action started more than 20 years ago as
- a temporary solution, and today we have all the young (and old)
- women who demand affirmative action for themselves.
-
- I think that the word "temporary" has been used to reduce men's
- resistance, but the people who have pushed affirmative action
- think that "temporary" is something like 3,000 years.
-
- >>Most employers and most schools ask all applicants to fill out
- >>affirmative action when they apply. In those forms one has to
- >>tell about his/her race and sex. I'm a little surprised that
- >>your school has not asked you to fill out any.
-
- >My gender is obvious from my name. My race is Caucasian, which would not
- >grant me any affirmative action preference.
-
- If everybody would refuse to fill up affirmative action forms, then
- the bean counters will have a much harder time enforcing schools
- to accept more women and/or minorities.
-
- It is your choice if you want to cooperate with the system or not,
- but cooperating with the system, and being sure that you are/were/will
- be accepted on your own merits, seems to me a little contradictory.
-
- >Lenore Levine
-
- Hillel gazit@cs.duke.edu
-
- "Y'know .. REAL equality, REAL paybacks to women for being turned into
- what they are by society would involve switching places and making men
- the 2nd class citizens for the next 3000 years or so." -- Jeanette Dravk
-