Re: Different Values (was The Transhumanist Racist)

From: hal@rain.org
Date: Sat Jun 12 1999 - 22:43:09 MDT


Harvey Newstrom, <newstrom@newstaffinc.com>, writes:
> One of the biggest frustrations I have with this discussion list is the
> inability of people to understand the viewpoints of others. The very idea
> that the KKK would transform themselves into blacks if blacks were somehow
> proven to be a superior race is ludicrous. Even though racists claim to
> have scientific evidence for white superiority, they would never accept
> scientific evidence of black superiority. To speculate that they would
> clearly shows a lack of understanding of the mindset.

It is a good point that we have a somewhat narrow perspective here and
it is easy to make the mistake of assuming that other people think like
we do.

However I suspect that in fact at least some white racists would be
willing to concede Asian and perhaps Jewish superiority (of course
Jews are white, but white racists hate them anyway), at least in
terms of intelligence. For that matter they will say that blacks are
superior physically. Sometimes their viewpoint is that "we whites need
to protect our own", and that Asians and Jews are even more of a threat
due to their superior intellect. I think I have seen references to
white militia literature which takes this position.

Hal



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