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Article #1651Re: Our Anti-Merit System
From: Mark Richards
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 05:39
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 05:39
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"Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab@lojban.org> wrote in > You've chosen to classify people according to this nebulous thing > called "race" because you correlate it with something else you call > "ability" or "accomplishment". It is the natural thing to assume the > correlation means causation, and that assumption is false. As long as > you identify correlations without PROVING a causal relationship, you > will find your position attacked. I would prefer not to classify people at all. I would like to see our whole society emulate professional sports, where clearly the most qualified gets the job and the few race-whiners who dredge up things to complain about are generally ignored. Are you familiar with Booker T. Washington? His philosophy was for blacks to just accept the fact the whites were prejudiced against them, and just ignore it, since they couldn't do anything about it anyway. Just go out and be the best people you can be, and sooner or later bias would just fade away. It was a most unpopular strategy. But that was over 100 years ago, and if his advice had been followed, who can say that we all might be a whole lot better off today. Mark
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