Re: A policy that all Republicans can get behind

Jeffrey Scott Linder wrote:
> Jeffrey Turner <jturner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>Jeffrey Scott Linder wrote:
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>>>mariposas rand mair fheal <mair_fheal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>Stevie Nichts <nix2nichts@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>On Jun 30, 8:10 pm, mariposas rand mair fheal <mair_fh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>wrote:
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>>>>>>Stevie Nichts <nix2nic...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>>>On Jun 30, 11:19 am, Jeffrey Turner <jtur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>Ernst Blofeld wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>On Jun 29, 8:44 am, Jeffrey Turner <jtur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>>>Because, you know, anyone against affirmative action and quota 
>>>>>>>>>>>hiring
>>>>>>>>>>>is also a racist and against civil rights.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>And thus you quickly prove the point I was making.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>What is the conservative approach, other than to say, "Tut tut,
that 
>>>>>>>>>>is
>>>>>>>>>>a problem"?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Um, not discriminating on the basis of race?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Oh right, pretending there is no problem.  Gotcha.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I thought the standard was judging a person by the content
>>>>>>>of his character, and not by the color of his skin. Has that
>>>>>>>notion been wholly abandoned by the left?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>so if we compare the color of skin in a large enough company
>>>>>>should or should it not match the population as a whole?
>>>>>
>>>>>Ah, yes: the canard that equality of results trumps
>>>>>equality of op****tunity. What did MLK think of that, anyway?
>>>>
>>>>how do you demonstrate equality of op****tunity
>>>>if the results are not
>>>
>>>You can't demonstrate equality of op****tunity by judging results.
>>
>>With a large enough sample size you can.  
> 
> Give me an example.
> 
>>Unless you believe there are
>>inherent differences that preclude some people from achieving results.
> 
> No, just choices.

Lawd yes.  Dem [black folks] is lazy, ****f'less good-fer-nuthin's.  Ya
can't expect them to make good, responsible choices lik'n us white
folks.

>>It's done all the time.  If you're testing a new drug, and those taking
>>it live longer than the control group, then you conclude they had a
>>better "op****tunity."
> 
> Different system....no self-selection is expressed.

Black folks choose to be poor.  Ever since the 1965 Civil Rights Act -
and hardly a man is now alive who remembers that year - blacks have had
full equal rights and just keep choosing to be poor.  Of course, so do
poor whites every time they vote Republican.  Uh huh.

--Jeff

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