From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Tue Sep 10 2002 - 01:33:57 MDT
Harvey writes
> That is why it is so scary to me to see racial profiling, group
> judgments, eugenics, selective child killing, and The Bell Curve
> discussed on this list as if they are reasonable positions within our
> philosophy.
Well, since several of us certainly defended the propriety
of some of the above, it indeed does sound as though you're
looking for a fight. I for sure am not the slightest bit
ashamed of having started a number of threads on several
of the above subjects.
> (And no, this is not an invitation for all the racists to come out of
> the woodwork and demand that I offer real scientific proof that these
> viewpoints are wrong. I'm not playing that game.)
It sure looks like game playing to me. Are you insinuating
that there exist frequent posters to this list who are racists,
or that for having begun several of the above mentioned threads
that I am a racist? Please accept those as rhetorical questions
whose answers are surely in the negative.
I denounce racism, and all the intolerance that it engenders.
In fact, I denounce almost all kinds of intolerance, and I
continue to be pleased that the Extropian list tolerates
a wide variety of viewpoints, with no impositions of "political
correctness" or censorship. I am equally pleased that no
racists ever post to this list (so far as I know), and that
I agree wholeheartedly with Greg Burch's statement about
the *non-existent* connection between racism and Extropianism.
Again: racists *do not* post to this list (so far as I know
and so far as I have seen).
I also have no intention of shying away from expressing myself
here on any number of topics that some might consider verboten,
if I happen to feel like it. Indeed this is and should remain
an open forum.
Lee Corbin
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