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- From: Dartmouth.EDU!Justin.A.Ruben
- Subject: Re: AI in Clintons Cabinet
- Message-ID: <3132014@vixen.Dartmouth.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 06:24:39 GMT
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- Original-Sender: Dartmouth.EDU!Justin.A.Ruben
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- re: this whole argument over Clinton's cabinet.
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- Why, when Clinton picks a cabinet with a greater share of oppressed
- minorities (are there any other sort?) than past cabinets, is it
- automatically assumed that he traded quality for diversity? Is this not
- thinly veiled racism in itself? When we get a cabinet that's 95% white men
- it's assumed that the president used merit as his sole criterion. If we had
- a cabinet that was 95% african-american women, just imagine the cries of
- "quota-monger" that would ensue from all quarters. Because, of course, (the
- reasoning goes) an african-american women must not be as qualified as a white
- man and hence could only have been chosen to fulfill diversity goals.
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- It's about time someone took a (small) step toward choosing the cabinet from
- among ALL those qualified, not just the white men who happen to fit the bill.
-
- Justin Ruben
- justin.ruben@dartmouth.edu
- "rutabaga"
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