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John O'Sullivan.(Is Affirmative Action on the Way Out? Should It Be? A Symposium)(Cover Story)

Affirmative action has never been simply a "hand up" to "people who have had a hard time." It originally meant preferential treatment for people belonging to the racial group that had had a hard time, namely, American blacks under slavery and Jim Crow, or to the sex that feminists falsely claimed to have had a hard time, namely, American women under motherhood. Many of its supposed beneficiaries, however, had not themselves had a hard time, having been born into rich or successful middle-class families, or having married rich or successful men, or even having married poor and unsuccessful men who accepted a duty to support wives and children out of a breadwinner's income. And, of

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