From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 22:59:41 MDT
spike66 wrote:
> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
>> ...A Google search reveals the websites that seem to think Extropians
>> are racists, or somehow connected to eugenics, white supremacy or
>> other such groups.
>> The worst example of this confusion were the Extropians@MIT, which
>> caused a big stir by sending racist literature to new students using a
>> stolen address list...
>
>
> I dont think we should worry about this, since there is no
> way to stop it. Anyone can get on extropians, pretend to be
> one of the in-crowd, then post any kind of vile corruption
> they want, which can be quoted by anyone in a website,
> not knowing the post was made by an infiltrator.
I hate to say this. But sometimes I have wondered if some of
the fairly regular folks aren't out to discredit extropians. It
was not newbies that have said some of the more outrageous (imho
of course) things on this list since I have been around.
> Enemies of extropy can easily discount the entire
> organization by tagging it with what our society
> views as the most vile of all attitudes: racism.
Are you studiously missing the point? We often don't make
ourselves look all that good here. Does anyone care about that?
>
> Anyone can diss any internet group by tagging it neonazi.
> Does anyone here think we dont have enemies? We
> discuss making people greater than human. Plenty of
> people want humanity to die out altogether, never mind
> becoming even more powerful. What do you think is
> the attitude of Religion Incorporated towards extropy?
Probably as sorry as the general prevailing attitude here to
religion or anything like the s-word.
> What is the attitude of the anti-progress hordes?
>
What should be the attitude to balanced peole against such rhetoric?
> Dont lose sleep over those things we cannot change. spike
>
We could change a great deal if we weren't too busy labeling
those who don't immediately love us instead of cleaning up our
own house.
- samantha
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