[extropy-chat] re: looks like Bush will win

[Natasha Vita-More]

Thank you for this post. Trendologist is having fun, but I think that it 
has gone too far.  Time to bring in the list moderators.

Best,
Natasha

At 02:15 PM 10/24/04 +0000, you wrote:
>T.O.
>    I read statements like the one below and have to ask..
>" Is he serious about this or is it just trolling of some kind?"
>   I'm a southerner. I speak English with a drawl. I come from
>a long line of bible-thumpers (though I'm a rationalist/buddhist sort
>myself). And I'm 2 generations off the farm.
>  And yet I'm here on this list and a part of the transhumanist
>community.
>   We could sit in a cafe and discuss music, politics, philosophy,
>martial arts.. any number of subjects.. and you might find I'm
>far more versed about things that (statistically) I'd expect you to
>know next to nothing about. DOubtless you have similar areas of
>private expertise.
>   There is absolutely no excuse for the sort of post below,
>it's irrational in the extreme. Broad generalizations are not
>excusable simply by noting the offense just after you
>commit it.
>
>Thanks,
>Brian
>
>"Looks like Bush will win. Whatever the tally ends up
>being, must redneck Southerners be so aggressive with
>their culture? They don't like Yankee culture so they
>want to push something worse on us? Can't Southern men
>be content with their wives & mistresses and other
>'nookie'? I swear, the next time a guy with a drawl
>approaches to attempt to convert me to Christianity
>I'll spit on the ground. I'm totally tired of so many
>Southerners trying to inflict their religion on
>America; it's not love, it's hate disguised as love.
>And they want us to pity them for 140 years ago?
>Northerners weren't particularly interested in
>abolishing slavery, they bent over backwards to avoid
>the war yet Southerners wanted the Feds to guarantee
>slavery by using Federal agents to retrieve runaway
>slaves-- plus the South wanted other completely
>un-Christian measures to be instituted.
>Sure, this is all a generalization however I can't
>avoid thinking very many Southerners want some sort of
>revenge.
>
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Natasha Vita-More
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