Newsweek Equates Affirmative Action With Apartheid!

Really. Well, not intentionally. More like a Freudian slip on the keyboard. But still, it just goes to show how tricky it can be to show that you oppose racial discrimination without implying that you, well, oppose racial discrimination.

In an article about South Africa ten years after the demise of what it calls “the system of legal racism known as apartheid,” Newsweek says the following:

Rolling back the legacy of apartheid

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  1. Gene Expression January 16, 2005 at 5:09 pm | | Reply

    From the Dept. of Analogies One Doesn’t Want to Make

    John at Discriminations points me to this NewsWeek quote: Rolling back the legacy of apartheid

  2. Gene Expression January 16, 2005 at 5:10 pm | | Reply

    From the Dept. of Analogies One Doesn’t Want to Make

    John at Discriminations points me to this Newsweek quote: Rolling back the legacy of apartheid

  3. actus January 16, 2005 at 8:57 pm | | Reply

    Newsweek is being very kind to apartheid.

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