Is this professor smoking something? Or is protection of the ugly from "discrimination" the next item on the ever-expanding liberal agenda? Since this article was printed in the New York Times, we must take this issue seriously no matter how absurd it may appear. It seems to me that if affirmative action was put in place for the ugly, the number of people claiming to be ugly would far exceed the 2% the author proposes. The government would have to set up a bureaucracy in order to determine who was ugly and who was not. In order to gain benefits from discrimination lawsuits, some people might go so far as to make themselves ugly, pulling out teeth, smashing their noses, cutting off ears, etc. I think the article proves, without a doubt, that liberalism is a pit of stupidity that can never be filled.
Blackrook, you should know that Libhater beat you to it: http://www.politicalforum.com/polit...hould-ugly-people-get-affirmative-action.html