From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 10:20:06 MDT
Zero Powers wrote:
>
> >From: Loree Thomas <loreetg@yahoo.com>
> >
> >Please note Mike... racists don't have to have invalid
> >arguments to BE racist.
> >
> >And Damien's reply to Zero was to show that the site
> >was racist, not that it was in error.
>
> Truth be told we all have race-based prejudices. We are hardwired to
> prejudge people and situations. It's a necessary intellectual shortcut
> which permits one to make decisions in life when given less than all the
> facts.
>
> That's not to say that I suffer supremacists or unjust oppressors of any
> stripe. But I'd rather interact with an honest racist than an insincere
> anti-racist.
I found Loree's response rather interesting, though, that even if a
person has valid arguments and facts for their opinions, they are still
automatically wrong because their conclusions resemble those of racists
of the past.
As I've written in the past, racism, even in mild subconcious form, is a
hardwired result of our evolved mechanisms for trust evaluation
on-the-fly. The only alternative is to have an all seeing Big Brother
state that controlls all trust evaluations, so people don't have to and
individuals are not allowed to show any sort of bias or judgement from
their own inbuilt trust evaluators.
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