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From: al@mot.UUCP (Al Filipski)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Affirmative Action, Reverse Discrimination
Message-ID: <131@mot.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 12:44:48 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 29 12:44:48 1985
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>>I heard this the other day, attributed to an airline pilot:
>>
>>	"Remember, next time you're flying at 30,000 feet,
>>	 that the guy piloting that 747 may not necessarily
>>	 be the best person qualified to fly the plane, but
>>	 got hired to fulfill a quota requirement."
>>-- 
>>Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam
>
>That's right... for the first 50 or so years of aviation, he was hired
>because he was a white male, thereby fufilling a very simple quota system:
>all us, no them.  Grow up.
>
>David Rossiter / CS Dep't / Cornell University / Ithaca / NY / 14850 / USA

Grow up? Is one arbitrary quota system better than another? Isn't it better
just to treat people as individuals? I think we would be pretty grown up
if we could do that.

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Alan Filipski, UNIX group, Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ U.S.A
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