Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net From: "James Wilkinson Sword" Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics,comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.os.windows-10 Subject: Re: Smokers are smarter, I say. Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 23:47:57 +0100 Organization: ~ Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <7699542da7f01f1304183cf9c297a669@dizum.com> <2017041916452437525-savageduck1@REMOVESPAMmecom> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Opera Mail/1.0 (Win32) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:411972 sci.physics:631154 comp.sys.mac.system:105787 alt.comp.os.windows-10:41247 On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 22:48:10 +0100, Sprang wrote: > On Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:30:25 -0700, Snit, after 15 edits, wrote this: >> On 4/28/17, 1:37 PM, in article op.yze97yayjs98qf@red.lan, "James Wilkinson >> Sword" wrote: >> >> ... >>>>>> Did you read my comments, above? I talked about this challenge. If you have >>>>>> a good solution for it I would love to hear it. >>>>>> >>>>>> I do think we can look at those who are from poor neighborhoods and work to >>>>>> equalize things there ... black, white, or green, does not matter. >>>>>> >>>>>> And stop funding school districts with property taxes... that is stupid and >>>>>> leads to problems that last for generations. >>>>>> >>>>> clearly, he wants to keep his "unequal" rights intact AKA "white privilege". >>>>> >>>> Hell! Working with, and for me before I retired there were Whites, Blacks, >>>> Hispanics, Puerto Ricans, Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese, Samoans, Chinese, >>>> Japanese, one Pakistani, men, women, straights & gays of both sexes, >>>> religious faithful (normal Christian, off the wall crazy Christian, Jews, >>>> Muslims, & Budhists), athiests, good workers, and mediocre workers from >>>> across the ethnicity spectrum. >>>> >>>> Among that American melting pot of co-workers you could find decent folks and >>>> total assholes, race knows no boundaries. >>>> >>> 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? -- "The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)