On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 09:47:24AM -0700, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> Affirmative Action was created as a national policy by Richard Nixon in his Philadelphia Plan. It was a sort of substitute for real civil rights and school reform. Big biz likes because it reduces the employer's exposure to lawsuits. It's kind of ironic that it has become a liberal icona nd a conservative shibboleth. jks
>
> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:RE wrote:
>
> >The second paragraph of the WSJrnl's lead article today:
> >
> >"In a landmark decision with wide-ranging implications for affirmative
> >action across American society, the court ruled that it is legal to give
> >some preferential treatment to disadvantaged minorities, calling the
> >diversity that they bring to education, business and the military necessary
> >to the cultivation of "a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the
> >citizenry."
> >
> >A new twist to the idea of repressive tolerance from the election thieves.
> >Is it implausible to think that O'Connor explicitly sees this ruling as
> >counterbalancing some of the damage they did?
>
> Big capital likes affirmative action, and submitted amicus briefs in
> support of it. As Marx said, the better a ruling class is able to
> absorb the natural leaders of the dominated class, the more solid &
> dangerous is its rule.
>
> Doug
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