RE: White Power Transhumanism?

From: Zero Powers (zero_powers@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 00:14:26 MDT


>From: Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
>
>At 12:06 PM 4/9/02 +0930, Emlyn wrote:
>
> >Did you notice the email address?
> >
> >soylent_green@iname.com
> >
> >LMAO
>
>I also noticed that one author the site quotes more than once is an e-pal
>of mine, the moderate transhumanist Dr Gregory Rawlins. Presumably they
>don't know he's black.
>
>Damien Broderick
>[also LMAO]

Maybe you guys saw something I didn't. But I didn't come away with the
impression that it's a white power site. One of the qualities that "they"
list as desirable for their members is a willingness to frankly discuss
issues of race. That, in my mind, does not a racist make. Most of what I
saw at the site actually made sense to me. In fact if it weren't for the
fact that I just don't the have time to follow yet another mailing list, I'd
think seriously about subscribing. And, for those who don't know, I'm a
black guy.

Did any of you actually see anything at the site that was explicitly racist,
or did you just assume such from the subject line of this thread?

-Zero

"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)

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