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The Independent Review
Volume 5 Number 2
Fall 2000

Double Standards, Double Talk, and Multiple Troubles
By Philip Perlmutter

Fairness in the public realm once meant equality before the law, but many today equate it with equality of outcome. Is it any wonder, then, that American political culture has become plagued by identity politics, victimization claims and affirmative discrimination?

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