[453] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: Affirmative Action
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prez H. Cannady)
Wed May 2 03:32:31 2001
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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 03:31:34 -0400
To: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>, mit-talk@MIT.EDU
From: "Prez H. Cannady" <revprez@MIT.EDU>
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At 11:16 PM 5/1/01 , Sourav K. Mandal wrote
>
>I know that, actually.
For real?
>However, that's not what affirmative action is
>_any more_.
Incorrect, that is still what affirmative action is.
What has entered into the buzz word lexicon refers to
equal opportunity programs -- many of which are
happily, voluntarily and readily available in the
marketplace regardless of whether they fall under
the collection of federal classes associated with
actual affirmative action.
>Yes, this is the transmogrification of affirmative action from
>practical business policy to annoying entitlement program.
Hardly. MIT's admissions policy for underrepresented
minorities is not an affirmative action program,
but in fact an equal opportunities program in line
with several regulations -- most which have nothing
to do with admissions but quality of life while at
campus.
Now, I can understand how large groups of folk out
in the world confuse the two. There is no excuse
here at MIT, especially when you have an opinion on
it and you intend to explain it to other MIT students.
>Actually, I'm worried about being _left out_ by affirmative action,
>since I'm in an "over-represented" minority.
So pontificating on it is the Objectivist approach
to handling the disadvantage it puts on your person?
"Worrying" is something done by armchair philosophers,
moms and Congresscritters.
>> Now there's something you might want to avoid admitting
>> in public. Look what happened to Noam Chomsky.
>
>Ha! ;-) I have little to lose by pissing off my ethnic group, because
>they do not singularly control my professional future. Now, if I were
>some pseudo-intellectual specializing in Indian-American politics ...
Or worse yet, an intellectual commenting on pseudo-intellectuals
from the eternal safety of the sideline.
>Me too -- that doesn't mean there aren't prevalent behaviors which are
>highly objectionable.
Objectionable to whom? I've got this little rule.
If you object to what I do and can't bring it, straight
up and down fuc'you. I'm not here to suck dick and
smile for the cameras; so when my behavior crosses
somebody I lay it down straight and if necessary
wile'out on a kid.
>Should a Muslim take pride in the misogynist
>Koranic Law, or least unfair, literalist interpretations of it?
If that's his lot, why not?
Rev Prez
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