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To: cosmicforce who wrote (3633)	1/27/2001 1:26:22 PM
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<<It pays to lift ones roots periodically lest stagnation sets in. >> True. And it's so true that personal experience has deep effects on one's political feelings. A personal experience that I've told once on SI: A liberal parents' group, they'd call themselves "left," in my area instituted a campaign called "Hands Off the Homework." They are disturbed at the higher performance in the public school by white children, and feel that an appropriate way of addressing that disparity is to make taboo the standard middle class practice of sitting down and checking your child's homework. Actually, this isn't going on in my town, but in one 15 minutes away where friends of mine live, and I haven't gotten an update on how this risable campaign is working out. I don't need to, of course. It will fail. My point is just that ideology on either side can result in really bizarre policy notions. I've also had personal experiences connected to affirmative action in the work place that caused my conviction that it is not, as a generalization, a policy advantageous to black people.

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