[extropy-chat] Transhumanism == militant fascism (apparently)

[Dan Clemmensen]

Mike Lorrey wrote:

>--- Neil Halelamien <neuronexmachina at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=154788&threshold=0&cid=12979847
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>>So how does one go about debating people like this? Is it even
>>possible? Are there any relevant points they make which we need to
>>keep in mind?
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>The socialist left-wing slant of slashdot readers is notorious,
>primarily because it is the paper of record for the open source
>community. The anti-property anti-enterprise slant of Stallman is the
>primary reason so many get into the movement. It isn't surprising there
>is a heavy overlap with those in the left wing who hate or fear technology.
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Mike, this is a preposterous assertion.

Slashdot's editorial stance is "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters."

The editors do not care about left-right, liberal-conservative, or
green-blue. They try to post stuff that Nerds care about. commentary is then
added by many random people with many random opinions. A great many of the
posts on Slashdot appear to be from teenagers. These kids do not in 
general have
a particular political position. Rather, they feel that they are being 
screwed by the
entertainment industry, and they are therefore morally justified in 
acquiring the music
they like. The RIAA is perceived as evil. The slightly older crowd 
treats the BSA as
equivalent to RIAA. In general the posters align themselves on the "nerd"
axis. Left-right and conservative-liberal are irrelevant. People who 
self-associate on these
older axes tend to look at the posts on Slashdot as being opposed to 
their own views.
A liberal sees Slashdot as conservative, You see Slashdot as Liberal. 
Slashdot sees
you as irrelevant.

Many posts on Slashdot refer to Stallman as a nut-case. Slashdot does 
does not
support Stallman. It supports Nerds. Many (Most?) Slashdot readers 
prefer the more
pragmatic "Open Source" approach to Stalmans's "free software" concept, and
Stallman's insistence on the "GNU/Linux" nomenclature is clearly very
irritating to a large portion of the Slashdot community.