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Re: Affirmative Action (Was: Anthroplogists, I need advice!)
wd&aeMiller (millerwd@ix.netcom.com(wd&aeMiller))
12 Sep 1996 21:36:39 GMT
In <32377F47.74F2@megafauna.com> Stephen Barnard <steve@megafauna.com>
writes:
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>Bruce Scott TOK wrote:
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>> Stephen Barnard (steve@megafauna.com) wrote:
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>> [responding to omar shafey]
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>> : Affirmative action, no matter how noble its motives, hasn't
worked.
>> : Your post demonstrates that.
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>> Not really true. It has worked to a certain degree. Simply compare
the
>> situation today and the situation which preceded affirmative action.
It
>> is not an ideal policy but its absence would merely recreate the
>> disaster that reigned before its initiation.
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>> Doing better does not mean going back.
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>> --
>> Mach's gut!
>> Bruce Scott Congratulations to
>> bds@ipp-garching.mpg.de Ghada Shouaa,
>> Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik Olympic heptathlon
champion!
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>Everyone has different opinions about this sensitive topic. I have
>mine; you have yours. I won't argue with you about it.
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> Steve Barnard
Interesting. Does this mean that affirmative action somehow fits into
the category of cultural relativism? I think there CAN be an objective
truth to whether or not affirmative action is necessary anymore in
today's society, specifically in the West Coast states. I don't have
much reference to the situation in the East.
Amanda
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