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Identify Any Fallacies in the Following Passage Either by Naming

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Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue.
Big L: I like the new civil rights bill, especially the provision that prohibits indirect discrimination practices, such as height and weight requirements that could exclude women.
Little C: It may sound fine to you, but not to me. We are almost to the point already that employers are forced to hire blacks just because they are black and women just because they are women, and that's just reverse discrimination.

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