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[quote=TheManWithAUsername][quote=Anonymous]ManWithAUserName, MIT's sexism was a pre-existing form of discrimination. That's why they were called on it.[/quote]
What? No - I meant "preexisting" as in "unrelated to the employer."

You've said that a company is sexist if it does not institute policies to ameliorate the innate, natural injustice of the inequitable impact of having children on women. I raised affirmative action as a case in which employers sometimes take action to ameliorate other injustices that they did not create. I asked if you would call it racist for an employer not to institute AA.

[quote=Anonymous]As for standing by when discrimination occurs, yes it is a sin. You can decide for yourself whether or not it is excusable (different from understandable), but is is clearly not in the same category of moral goodness that taking action is, and not in the same category of people who are ignorant of such problems (morally neutral).[/quote]
You didn't say that an employer's failure to help women with children was a "sin," possibly an excusable one - you said that it was [b]sexist.[/b]

Are we all sexists, racists, etc. in every instance in which we fail to act against discrimination? That's why I say that overuse of those terms is counterproductive - if everyone is a sexist or a racist, then no one is.[/quote]

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