From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 11:34:48 MDT
Harvey Newstrom wrote:
>
> On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 02:12 am, Amara Graps wrote:
>
>> WTF is this?
>>
>> http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?s=2a921b763522f9b85bec6b824451531a&
>>
>> threadid=34658
>>
>> It seems that some from the Stormfront White Nationalist Community
>> are reading the extropians list and passing that information around.
>
>
> I have complained about this before. Extropianism and Transhumanism
> have long been connected to the racist movement in the minds of many.
> 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.
>
Having read the Bell Curve I would not for a second lump it with
the rest. Doing so makes it looks like you are the one being
unreasonable. As a study it gave much food for thought and did
so with a lot of care. What people do with it later can not be
blamed on the book itself imo.
- samantha
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