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Re: Vote against/for...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 9 Nov 2002 19:14:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > He merely pointed out that still, even after all the progress that we've
> > made in this country, it helps to be white. That's wrong. Plain and simple.
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> In what way *specifically* does it help to be white? I would say that, all
> things being equal, it *hurts* to be white. In PC corporate America, if you
> had 2 applicants for a job, both equal in all ways but 1 black and 1 white,
> whom do you suppose would get the job?
I can only suppose you don't know the answer to this or you would have never
posed the question. The white. Oh, it's not as bad as it was during the
sixties, but since the people in charge of hiring are still overwhelmingly
white males, that's what they tend to hire. It doesn't have to be overt
racism, the herd mentality accounts for much: do you look like me, do you
sound like me, do you wear the same clothes as me?
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> > How to fix it? I dunno. It's clear (to me anyway) that welfare and
> > affirmative action, are at this point, making things worse rather than better.
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> I agree completely! Because in the final analysis, those are fundamentally
> flawed (and in the case of AA, downright racist) policies in and of
> themselves-- it is little wonder that they are failures. Two wrongs don't make
> it right.
True, but it makes things a little more tolerable to those who's only other
option was to riot in protest.
The average welfare recipient is a white female, and Republicans want their
females dependent rather than independent, so instead of having a mechanism
for helping people to get off welfare, they rot there. A waste for all
involved.
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> BTW just watch the Democratic party implode when the issue of reparations is
> pushed onto the Democratic platform. All of their disingenuous pandering since
> the 60's to the "black community" is going to boomerang and bite them in the
> butt.
I take it you weren't around in the 60's. As to the coming white backlash
you speak of, 50 million frenchmen can't be wrong (hiding safely behind
their Maginot line). :-)
Bruce
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| (...) In what way *specifically* does it help to be white? I would say that, all things being equal, it *hurts* to be white. In PC corporate America, if you had 2 applicants for a job, both equal in all ways but 1 black and 1 white, whom do you (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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