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8 Sep 2024 01:15:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Irony  
From: Gail Shaw
Date: 24 Apr 2008 15:16:44
Message: <4810dc9c@news.povray.org>
"Gilles Tran" <gil### [at] agroparistechfr> wrote in message
news:4810a102$1@news.povray.org...

> Now obviously people in Group A are innocent and are not responsible. But
> there's still a pending debt to pay to contemporary Group B and the only
> people who can pay it are Group A, who are, after all, living off the
> interest of grandpa's crimes. If you're from Group B, hearing Group A say
> "Well, I don't care" doesn't really cut it.

However there's a big difference between reparation and retribution. All too
often the tendency seems to be towards the latter.

Take a look at SA currently. Yes, apartheid was wrong. Very wrong. But does
that make Affirmative action (aka reverse apartheid) right?


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