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- From: budd@playfair.Stanford.EDU (David Budd)
- Subject: Re: Conservative? Hahaha....
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.202410.8182@EE.Stanford.EDU>
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- >
- >The Congress finally managed last year to pass the Civil Rights Bill over
- >the very strong objections of Bush and a lot of republicans and
- >conservatives. This bill contains a clause that outlaws quotas. QED
- >Quotas are illegal. End Of Arguement.
- >What is a quaota? Apply the duck test. If it looks like a quota, qaucks
- >like a quota, and walks like a quota, it is a quota. And illegal.
- >So what's yer problem?
- >
- >The congress. that bunch a liberals and godammned democrats took care of
- >the quota problem for once and for all.
- >
- >
- >--
- >popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
- >Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX, (713) 481-3763
- >1200/2400/9600/14400 v.32bis/v.42bis
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- An interesting "proof," to say the least that the bill is itself
- not a quota bill.
-
- First, and correct me if I am wrong, but the reconstruction ammendments
- to the constitution explicitly forbade the refusal of equal rights for
- black and in fact all americans. Yet, that these rights were witheld
- to one degree or another is inarguable.
- Second, the 1964 Civil Rights Laws passed under the Johnson administration
- guaranteed the rights of all americans once again, yet george wallace
- gained millions of votes in the 1968 election.
-
- The point is that just because a law precludes some objectionable
- action is NO guarantee that the action will not be taken.
- You see, the thrust of the so-called civil rights bills proposed by the
- democrats shifts the burden of proof in re discrimination from the
- accuser to the accused. (which raises certain legal and ethical
- questions vis a vis the "until proven guilty" precedent in our
- courts.) Thus, what defence can a business offer other than that
- its staff are sufficiently representative of the overall
- community? thus, quotas are implicitly dragged into the picture.
-
- I would argue that your "qed" is a bit premature, mr. "pope."
- in fact, that you have proved anything is in fact quite tenuous.
-
- --
- David Leung-tak
- "You can always tell a Harvard man. You just can't tell him very much."
- "A day without sun is night."
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