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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (90380)12/2/2004 10:05:00 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
You raise an interesting point. I don't think conservatives have ever packed the halls of academia, so it remains to be seen whether they would consider it a triumph of ideas. From my perspective, liberal hubris allows academics to denigrate conservative victories at the polls while patting itself on the back for intellectual superiority on campus.

I suppose you would call me a conservative, although I'm certainly more of a teddy bear than the general conception people usually give conservatives. I've always found that ideas crosswise of mine are challenging and serve to force me to make sure of my own.

I'm not sure affirmative action for minorities is strictly a liberal idea. It's an idea designed to accelerate through past injustices; however, when it is used to create present and future injustice it does more harm than good to the object of its intent.

I started my work career on a fire lookout in 1962. That year I was one of six lookouts, two of whom were women. The other women we had on that ranger district were all in the cookhouse. I was very proud to be working with women on the lookout. I knew they had taken the place of men during the war and served with distinction. But the cookhouse was no more a place for women than it was for men. I thought the work environment was totally unnatural for all concerned because women generally did not work at other jobs in my field. Now, however, women and other minorities fill every conceivable role.

The biggest barrier to having women and minorities fully integrated into the work force in my field is that remote locations and the living environment did not suit them. In effect, it was a self-imposed discrimination. That is changing.
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