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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 11:14 AM Original message |
Poll question: Should how you are treated depend on your ancestry? |
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Jmaxfie1 (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. Do you mean should we end Affirmative Action?... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 11:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Isn't affirmative action an example of government policy that is designed to |
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Jmaxfie1 (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 11:50 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. In that case, I'd probably say yes, with some riders... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 08:50 AM Response to Reply #5 |
28. Please tell me a bit about the riders you have in mind. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
2. One doesn't choose the have spina bifida, but it should effect how we treat that individual. n/t |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 12:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. People don't choose to have birth defects. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. If it's possible for one person to have Spina Bifida ... |
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gateley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
3. What a strange question -- what prompted it? nt |
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BOG PERSON (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
8. obviously, yes |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 06:47 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Is it really an advantage of race? Or an economic advantage? |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 07:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. President Obama had two daughters when they were most recently |
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Jmaxfie1 (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 07:07 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. No, I have no problem with race being a factor in say school admitions... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
9. Kick to encourage expression of opinions. |
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Moondog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-08-11 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
13. Nope. That is, by any definition, discrimination. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:22 PM Response to Original message |
14. Kick |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
15. My ancestry is Homo Sapiens |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:26 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. If you trace it back more, you might find sub-humans in your ancestry, so ... |
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kentauros (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. In that case |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
18. According to many, how you are treated should depend on |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
19. "Choices" is a very ambiguous qualifier, and how people are treated |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:46 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Analogy: if there were no murder, there might nevertheless be torture. |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I don't understand. How does that analogy relate to what I posted? nt |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 05:01 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Here ... |
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Zorra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 05:07 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Thanks. Better. I agree. nt |
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formernaderite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
20. well I'm an old hippie |
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Aerows (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:43 PM Response to Original message |
21. IMHO, this is a really loaded question |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 04:47 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Please explain what is loaded about it. |
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Cid_B (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 09:05 AM Response to Reply #23 |
30. People see what they want to see in it... |
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Jmaxfie1 (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 08:55 AM Response to Reply #21 |
29. It is kind of loaded, it doesn't give enough qualifiers, having talked to the.... |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 08:57 PM Response to Original message |
27. Kick |
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