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- From: drieux@wetware.com (drieux, just drieux)
- Subject: Re: Affirmative Action
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.002648.11069@wetware.com>
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- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 00:26:48 GMT
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- Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Holt) writes:
- ]
- ] The "usual" definition of AA, as I have met it, is along the
- ] lines of:
- ]
- ] If there has been systematic discrimination in filling
- ] certain positions, on a basis that was not relevant to
- ] suitability for those positions; and if this led to
- ] underrepresentation of an underprivileged group; then
- ] when there is a choice in filling future positions,
- ] among those people of the necessary standard, there
- ] should be a preference for those people of the
- ] underrepresented group.
-
-
- Sorta sounds like the basic case of awarding both
- child custody, as well as child support awards.
-
-
- I believe that Chris has put forward a clear case that
- far too many child Custody Cases have been Explicitly
- a violation of the general tenants of AA.
-
-
- ciao
- drieux
-
-
- ps: it would be amusing to watch the Trendoids of the ProLife
- Camp resolve how best to deal with the fact that there are a
- lot of DYNAMITE FATHERS who were/are vastly better qualified to
- be parents, than the person to whom the award was given.....
-
- But of course that means getting past the Nick_At_Nite view
- of the happy suburban world.....
-
-
-
- --
- MajorModernDayProblems: "Olivia Newton-John is the grand-daughter
- of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir Edmund Newton-John." --Frank
-
- Clear Proof Of Genetic Superiority, eh No????
-