Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.

From	Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.physics, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: Smokers are smarter, I say.
Date	2017-04-29 10:42 -0700
Message-ID	<D52A1EAA.A23DC%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
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On 4/29/17, 7:02 AM, in article op.yzgmm20njs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:00:21 +0100, Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/28/17, 3:47 PM, in article op.yzff97dljs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson
>> Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> wrote:
>> 
>> ...
>>>>>> The problem with the anti-racist left wing morons of today is they
>>>>>> require companies to employ the correct numbers of each race and sex,
>>>>>> regardless of how well they will do at the job.  For fuck's sake let the
>>>>>> companies employ who they think will do best.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> First: there is NOTHING wrong with being against racism.
>>>>> 
>>>> Then there should be NOTHING *wrong* with being for it.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Second: you are confusing supporting equal rights in general with
>>>>> supporting a form of affirmative action. The two are not the same.
>>>>> 
>>>> Everyone knows that. Affirmative action is racism.
>>>> 
>>> Snit ain't caucasian is he?
>>> 
>> I sincerely do not know if I am or if I am not,
> 
> Impossible.

I have no real opinion on the topic but there are many with very strong
opinions... both ways. It is far more of a political distinction than
anything else. 

>> which some people have told me is functionally equivalent to being so.
>> 
>> But regardless of race, I am very much pro equal rights and against special
>> entitlements. I also understand, though, that it is not always black and
>> white, such as with the question of affirmative action. I am not for it but
>> I can see where good people would be.  But the naïveté of the special
>> snow-flake common worldview of "just don't break the law and work hard and
>> things will go well for you" is not something I can support. NOT that I do
>> not support (largely) following the law and working hard (I do) but the idea
>> that this somehow fixes the issues we face is clearly very, very naïve.
> 
> What I'm against is companies having to employ say 15% blacks because the
> local population is 15% black.

I have never said I am for that. What I asked is if you had any suggested
solutions to the related issues. You do not. Fair enough -- as I admitted I
have no full solution either. It is not an easy issue to solve, and cannot b
solved fully no matter what we do.

> Blacks will be good at different jobs than whites,

Er?

> so making every company
> have the "correct" percentage is insane.


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Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-28 21:37 +0100
  Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 14:30 -0700
    Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-28 21:48 +0000
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-28 23:47 +0100
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-28 22:49 +0000
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-29 15:01 +0100
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 16:00 -0700
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-29 15:02 +0100
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-29 10:42 -0700
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-29 19:07 +0100
                Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-29 12:23 -0700
      Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 15:51 -0700
        Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-28 23:00 +0000
          Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 16:10 -0700
            Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Sprang <spring@sprung.invalid> - 2017-04-28 23:34 +0000
              Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-28 18:32 -0700

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