Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!jobe From: jobe@ssc-vax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics Subject: Re: A Flame at Affirmative Action Message-ID: <256@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Jun-83 11:40:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.256 Posted: Fri Jun 3 11:40:54 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Jun-83 13:25:51 EDT Lines: 24 Aaaah, Prudence (such a lovely name!), I think that you and I are in agreement that discrimination is wrong, has always been wrong, and will always be wrong. But I'm also sure that we don't agree on very much else. Lessee, here, now... You say that those arguments were (that the end justifies the means) used not to long ago to justify the happenings at Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and places like that there. But waitaminnit- does that imply that discrimination against whites is equivalent to the massacre of Jews by the Nazis? Now come on, isn't that a bit of a specious argument? Actually, what I see here again (and you people think I'm paranoid!) is another person justifying the fact that blacks and other minorities are still on the bottom of the rockpile due to the racist activities of your predecessors? Look, to put it bluntly, we've all got to start somewhere. If you continue to keep a significant portion of society in the economic cellar, sooner or later they're gonna get sick and tired of it. And somehow the bandaid of AAP on the wound of opression is far better than the misery, squalor, and perhaps violence that wound could cause. Besides that, really all we want is a chance at your society. Is it so important to you to keep us from it? Apparently the only black on the Net, jobe