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Friday, May 25, 2007

Overly Fine Distinctions

I'm normally in favor of making fine distinctions but this is ridiculous:

Seven-in-ten Americans now say they favor "affirmative action programs to help blacks, women and other minorities get better jobs and education," a 12-point increase since 1995, with support increasing among most demographic and political groups; but the number favoring "preferential treatment" for minorities, 34%, is no higher than in the early 1990s.
What do they imagine affirmative action is?

I'm reminded of the following fine distinction (attributed by Raymond Smullyan to Marvin Minsky):

No, no; your trouble is that you're confusing a thing with itself!

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Leftists will try to tell you that all "affirmative action" really means is outreach. But, of course, it's extra outreach based on skin color or other criteria, and it is almost always coupled with quotas or lowered standards, but those are -they say - not technically part of affirmative action. They're just symbiotic programs, I guess.

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