Subject: Re: affirmative action

From: [email-masked] (OKEEFE)
Date: 16 Feb 1995 03:13:52 GMT

Jonathan Abourbih ([email-masked]) wrote:
: >i wanted to comment on affirmative action, and how blatantly racsist it
: >is. somewhere in the constitution, it prohibits discrimination, right?

: You're right. In the American constitution, discrimination is prohibited. Up
: here in Canada, though, our Charter of Rights and Freedoms also prohibits
: discrimination *except* when used as part of an affirmative action program.
: This stinks. When are businesses going to stop hiring based on race, and
: start hiring based on qualifications?

: --Jonathan Abourbih
:   [email-masked]

Let's wake up here, people.  We are talking about discrimination, NOT racism.
Racism is an off-shoot of discrimination.  The constitution says that one
cannot discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, and age.  
It does not say anything about discrimination against homosexuals (which it
should) nor does it say anything about discrimination against "fat people."
There are other discriminations out there that go on that are perfectly 
legal.  That's what the whole gay-rights movement is all about.  And a
business man would much rather hire a shapely female secretary than someone
who might be overweight, but more qualified for the job.  America isn't as
swell as some think, eh?

Grendel
-- 
Memory, prophecy, and fantasy-
The past, the future and the dreaming moment in between-
Are all in one country, Living one immortal Day.
To know that is Wisdom.  To use this is the Art.