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08/13/01 01:48 AM: Win2K Professional
I should probably stop making it a habit to update at 2:30 AM.
I installed Windows 2000 Professional, and I am using it now as a matter of fact. This new release of Internet Explorer 6.0 looks pretty cool. I hate using the word cool, as I find nowadays it conveys little to no meaning. Internet Explorer 6.0 has a nice user interface, that I feel looks much nicer than 5.5. See, that was a more effective description that simply “cool.”
So, I read this article, boy, isn’t that is quite the dump-truck load of crap. “Bush team defends race preferences,” great, just what we need, more affirmative action. I happen to think that affirmative action is a horrible thing. While the Democrats may have on their mind “good intentions” when supporting it, must I remind you that indeed the road to hell was paved with good intentions. I think it is an awful thing when someone who is more qualified for a job is turned down in favor for a less qualified person solely based on the color of his or her skin and/or ethnicity. I am sure this “reverse racism” argument has been used over and over, but it still remains true. That is one of the few things I agreed with Bush on during that campaign; that Affirmative Action needs to go. Now he has reversed his position on that, like the little position reverser that he is.
How is it fair, under any definition of the word fair, to do this and give preference based on race? I am sorry that in the past some bad things happened to certain races. Actually, I take that back, I am not sorry, because I was not responsible for those acts of hatred. I had nothing to do with them. I was not even born. Why should I suffer the consequences?
Do I feel bad about what happened to the black/native/hispanic/other americans, and what is still happening? Sure. Does that make doing the opposite moral, or right? Of course not. That is exactly the reason I cannot support affirmative action!
What is this, some way to cosmically balance the load of hate in the universe?
Make no mistake, you don’t fight or end prejudice with more prejudice and discrimination.
