At 06:55 PM 1/06/99 +0200, den Otter wrote, quoting James Rogers:
>> Actually, I think you misread the intent of the quote. This particular
>> quote is often used as an ironic example of historical revisionism or
>> perhaps cultural license. [ snip ] The only racism implied would
>> be that of Lincoln.
>Exactly, that was the point of the "sig". It was a (tongue-in-cheek)
>response to someone else's Lincoln sig, namely:
>> "Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."
>-Lincoln
Yeah, right.
There's a context here, which the archives show plainly enough. In July 97, someone suggested that genetic engineering might permit people to alter skin colour and other `racial' characteristics.
>> There is a real possibility of an entire generation of
>>whites with black parents, followed by a "brownlash" (couldn't resist
>> the pun) as color becomes chic.
Here's what Mr den Otter posted in response:
>Underneath that aryan exterior there still
No, I don't wish to start a flamewar - just to register my revulsion at
this sort of nonsense emerging again on a list that should surely find talk
of a `negro soul' (in this demeaning sense) abominable.
>will be a negro soul...people will still hate eachother, just not at first
>glance. The change of skin won't solve the problems of unevenly distributed
>intelligence (in the broadest sense of the word), the real cause for
>racism.
Damien Broderick