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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (414762)	9/6/2008 6:52:25 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575431

seems "uppity" is only a racial slur if you're a black using it!! dictionary.reference.com Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This uppity 1880, from up; originally used by blacks of other blacks felt to be too self-assertive give'em enough time and rope, a liberal will hang themselves every time...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (414762)	9/6/2008 7:49:29 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575431

>Government can enforce equal opportunity and ensure that race doesn't play a factor in anything other than health and genetics. >Affirmative action does more harm than good because it: >a) Pits members of a given race against each other. >b) Rewards mediocrity in results and punishes achievement. These assume that affirmative action severely weights circumstances in favor of minorities, which it doesn't. All it's supposed to do, is everything else being basically equal, give minorities a little bit of an edge. And I haven't seen anything indicating that it does much more than that. >c) Gives a false sense of redemption to white people who think they've fulfilled their debt to minorities. Well, that would pretty much disqualify anything short of a perfect one-measure solution. >Try again. If "uppity" can be twisted into a racial slur, ANYTHING can. Crap again. There are certain words that have been used as racial slurs for centuries. There aren't that many. I have NEVER heard "uppity" be used in reference to a white person. >The opposition therefore is forced to choose words carefully, water down their arguments, or face being omitted from the debate. >Hence, the opposition is "silenced." By one slang word? And no one's even stopping someone from using it; they'll just get called a jerk and a racist if they do. -Z