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To: TimF who wrote (149532)	8/12/2002 11:06:48 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1580284

Don't tell me laws weren't needed to approximate equal results. And disastrous results did not result from instituting these laws. On the contrary, without these laws, disastrous results would have been guaranteed. You talk about bad conditions decades ago and then imply that AA cured them or at least made them a lot better. In doing this you are failing to consider that most of the laws that had a major effect where not affirimitive action laws. Also you don't consider non legal sources for change like a reduced amount of discrimination against minorities and generations of minorities building apon the progress of previous generations. I didn't say AA cured all the bad conditions......it was part of the cure, an important part. Of course, I have considered building on past generations. We created a well entrenched welfare class......you don't change that paradigm by simply changing the laws. And yes, Americans are more sensitive about discriministration and only the major *ssholes show it openly now.......that helps. So you should be grateful for Equal Opp. and AA but instead you complain and want to dismantle these laws before the job is done. Go figure! Your lumping Equal Opp. and AA together but they are two different things. One says you can't discriminate based on things like race. The other tries for a "make up"/reverse discrimination. One has produced some good at the cost of some freedom. The other has almost entirly negative results. You're joking. Technically, AA was part of an presidential executive order and it was intended to support the gaols of prior Equal. Opp. and civil rights laws plus make amends for past injustices. BS........AA has not had "almost entirely negative results". Listen, I am not here to defend AA. If you don't like it, stop whining and get the law changed.......that's what a democracy is all about. ted Tim

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