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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
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Posted: Fri Jun 21 19:55:52 1985
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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.

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		-- Robert Plamondon
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