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"Reverse Racism" is Pure Racism
by Glenn Woiceshyn
Dear Editor,
Re: "Discrimination"--letters by Iain Grant and Judith Myers--Oct/01/96
--The Globe and Mail
People like Iain Grant and Prof. Judith Myers still don't get it. Hiring quotas based
on race, sex, or other unchosen physiological trait amounts to placing physiology
above intellectual (and chosen) traits such as ambition, ability, merit, character
and ideas. This is pure racism or pure bigotry.
Their basic premise is that a female student is better off being instructed (or represented)
by a female professor than a male professor, where intellectual considerations are
secondary. As a white male, I would be far better off having an intelligent, knowledgeable
and objective black woman as a professor than a neurotic white man who preaches the
twin insanities of relativism and tribalism. Physiology is irrelevant here.
Also, Prof. Myers' and Mr. Grant (and the whole "reverse-racism" crowd)
imply that a white man today should be punished (via quotas) for the alleged racism
or bigotry of other white men. This is pure racism used to destroy justice. No individual
can be held morally responsible for the actions of those who merely share the same
physiology.
Hiring quotas will only make people more conscious of physiological traits (such
as race) and less conscious of individual traits such as ability and character. This
can only breed and inflame racism, bigotry and strife, as illustrated by recent trends
-- and by Mr. Grant's insinuation that any white male who is against quotas must
be a racist or bigot.
Sincerely,
Glenn Woiceshyn
© 1997 Glenn Woiceshyn. All rights reserved.
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