From: Brian Phillips (deepbluehalo@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu May 30 2002 - 01:05:28 MDT
It appears Harvey wrote
<I just did a search on "extropian and racist"
and found dozens of sites that try to classify groups. They list
extropians as one of the neonazi racist groups. Some of these sites
have quotations from the list and from the archives, or pointers to
other webpages with extropian posting on them. I didn't realize how bad
this problem was. I need to do more investigation on the Internet to
see what other people are saying about Extropians. At first glance it
doesn't look good.>
Huh? Alright harvey you're really going to have
to substantiate this. What search engine, and what
string.. cause out of curiosity I just googled
extropian and racism and came up with a big fat
three pages of nothing.
Couple of references to extropian's slamming
affirmative action. Wooo hoo!
One hit on that post-Nazi fellow, whose a
Holocaust revisionist. Back and forth ad hom
from his detractors... ho-hum.
Basically a whole bunch of nothing.
Speaking as a transhumanist, someone who
generally agrees with extropian principles,
an avowed ethnocentrist and someone who is
generally intolerant as hel of fools who
limit my freedom of association on ANY grounds
I think it's fair to say that anyone who
is *really* racist thinks of Extropians as
ethnically ignorant technophiles, and anyone
who thinks there is a strong connection
between race-memes and extropy-memes is a
absolute flaming idiot who can be safely
ignored.
Stop freaking out Harvey :)
regards,
Brian
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