Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!mms1646 From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Discrimination and AA and Racism Message-ID: <1340240@acf4.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 17:54:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1340240 Posted: Fri Jun 28 17:54:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 08:11:58 EDT References: <292@looking.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 23 >/* ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis) / 10:26 am Jun 27, 1985 */ > Yet by definition, being government sanctified, my forced contribution to > such an evil cause is not `immoral'. If an individual or a group takes away your property without your permission, I presume you consider that immoral. Why then is it not immoral for the government to do so? On what moral basis can the government be said to have such priveliges. > Any advocate of AA who believes that the program will cure existing > bigots of racism/sexism surely has rocks in their head. And opponents > who claim this is the goal of AA are simply demolishing their own silly > argument. > > The goal of AA is to compensate for the EFFECTS of racism/sexism. The goal of AA cannot be compensation, since it makes no effort to compensate those individuals who experienced discrimination. >-michael Mike Sykora