To: goldsnow who wrote (14257 ) 8/30/1999 6:01:00 AM From: GUSTAVE JAEGER Read Replies (1) | Respond to
I'm afraid you're even more confused: were you snatched in your Siberian boonies, you and your kindred, only to get strapped in the bottommost deck of a slave ship? I don't think so --you most likely scrambled like crazy to vamoose out of Russia.... Sure enough, many other minorities could wave past prejudices in order to entitle them to some preferential treatment and that's why Stanley Fish is right to point to the historical dimension of racial harmony --as he rightfully stressed it: it's a fraud to isolate the issue of Affirmative Action from its historical ins and outs. Eventually, the bottom line is Equal Opportunity at the present time. Just think of your American social frabic as of a more sophisticated, meandering version of a golden gated community. As you may know, these select gated communities allow in only fellow landlords who share their chartered 'philosophy'. It means that, so long as you comply with their electronic surveillance measures, with their neighborly criteria, their to-and-fro'ing timetables, etc., you are granted 'equal opportunity' inside the gated community.outside their cozy turf, that is, as you put it, 'self-determination, territorial, economical and political of the prejudiced minorities'. You can't get round it: either you foster shared equality of opportunities or you must bring yourself to separate equality of opportunities, aka apartheid....
