Re: Affirmative Action (Was: Anthroplogists, I need advice!)

jbernst@pipeline.com
13 Sep 1996 03:26:14 GMT

In article <3238B362.2305@megafauna.com>, Stephen Barnard writes:

>wd&aeMiller wrote:

Affirmative action has fucked up anthropology and academia in general in
the USA. You can't escape it by going to another coast. Any system that
works through discrimination and bases hiring on what ethnic or sexual
group you are in rather than what kind of work you do will have dire
results, and these results are in. It is not a pretty picture.

Jay