to look for women and minorities when hiring, if all else is equal I'd happily hire the minority, we just get so very few applicants who are minorities. But I've never been told "you can't hire any white people." That would be racist.

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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.

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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.