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Among those responding to our most recent poll, 51.3% tended to favor the Israelis in the current conflict, 30.8% the Palestinians, and 9% neither. There were 39 votes in all.
Posted by Jim Kalb at August 05, 2002 08:04 AM | Send
    

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Hey what do you use to power the Poll?

Posted by: Jake on August 5, 2002 5:20 PM

Spiderpoll, http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/11144.html . It’s a simple php script that doesn’t automate anything—to set up a new poll you have to edit 4 files—but it works and it’s not hard to customize the display.

Posted by: Jim Kalb on August 5, 2002 7:05 PM

replace it with a system of free association and meritocratic rule.

Posted by: sage mclaughlin on August 7, 2002 11:37 AM

“Free association” sounds like “no affirmative action or antidiscrimination rules for private organizations.” “Meritocratic rule” sounds like “civil servants chosen by merit system.” Is that what you have in mind?

Posted by: Jim Kalb on August 7, 2002 12:09 PM

Race-based affirmative action and racial quotas should be abolished across the board. However, I do think that “affirmative action” for male heads of household should be the law in government and encouraged in business.

I’m not sure about abolishing all so-called “equal opportunity rules”. ISTM that our massive government bureaucracies should be prohibited by law from systematically discriminating by race (which, today, would mean discriminating against whites).

Businesses should be free to hire and promote whomever they please for whatever reasons they please, but as I said, should be encouraged to hire and promote male heads of household.

Posted by: Jeff Culbreath on August 8, 2002 1:22 PM

Why male heads of household? Isn’t that sexist? And why not include white male heads of household to make up for the past 30 years or so of state-sanctioned anti-white discrimination?

Posted by: William on August 8, 2002 3:10 PM

Of course it is sexist. And it has nothing to do with making up for anything. The point is that giving preference to male heads of household is a way of giving preference to the family unit: a legitimate public policy goal.

Posted by: Jeff Culbreath on August 8, 2002 3:23 PM

Well, if you’re in the business of promoting (or reinstating, as the case may be) a certain class of human being, I don’t see why you should stop at sex. Why limit yourself? In recent decades white males have suffered a double loss to their position in society, first as males and then as whites.

And no, I’m not completely serious about this proposal, but I think it shows how silly and out-of-hand this affirmative action business can be.

Posted by: William on August 8, 2002 3:54 PM

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It seems that liberalism has thoroughly corrupted our thought and language. I would suggest that insofar as male heads of household are viewed merely as “a certain class of human being” among many, destined only to be a winner or loser in class politics, the triumph of liberalism is complete.

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Because sex and race are entirely different quantities. The former is fixed, permanent, and transcendant, with immutable spiritual and moral imperatives; the latter is dynamic, transient, and the result of historical accidents. There are no moral imperatives attached to “race”.

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So what? As my mother used to say, two wrongs don’t make a right.

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Agreed.

Posted by: Jeff Culbreath on August 8, 2002 5:50 PM
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