Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site fear.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!amd!amdcad!cae780!weitek!fear!robert From: robert@fear.UUCP (Robert Plamondon) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Discrimination and Affirmative Action Message-ID: <211@fear.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Jun-85 19:55:52 EDT Article-I.D.: fear.211 Posted: Fri Jun 21 19:55:52 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 06:19:39 EDT References:<338@unc.UUCP> <337@mhuxr.UUCP> <219@kontron.UUCP> <357@mhuxr.UUCP> Organization: Weitek Corp. Sunnyvale Ca. Lines: 22 In article <357@mhuxr.UUCP>, mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON) writes: > I have difficulty with believing that racism and sexism will "get > better" without vigorous action, with government leading the way. We > have heard that repeatedly throughout the century ('don't make waves, > things will get better" sometime, always just after my life > expectancy) But things ARE better, aren't they? And wasn't the government the major *BARRIER* to progress in many instances (No votes for women, "protective" labor laws for women)? Most of the progress in this century has been in the area of REPEALING discriminatory laws that were passed by the very government you trust so well. An example of things getting better by themselves is alcohol consumption in America, which (on a per capita basis) has dropped to less than half of its level in the 1840s. Did Prohibition play a major role in this, do you think? The facts indicate otherwise. -- -- Robert Plamondon {turtlevax, resonex, cae780}!weitek!robert