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From: jobe@ssc-vax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: A Flame at Affirmative Action
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Date: Fri, 3-Jun-83 11:40:54 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  3 11:40:54 1983
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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