[extropy-chat] Re: riots in france

[Jack Parkinson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Bloch" <transhumanist at goldenfuture.net>
To: "Jack Parkinson" <isthatyoujack at icqmail.com>; "ExI chat list"
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Re: riots in france
> Jack Parkinson wrote:
>
> >  PEOPLE (of any race or creed) live in ghettos in any part of the
> > world where they feel the need to support each other against  a
> > hostile environment.
>
> Then why do they move into a hostile environment in the first place? And
> then stay?

For some groups - hostility is a fact of life - it's only the amount they
actually suffer at any one time/place that varies. Where could you go if you
were an African-American in the 1950's and 60's? Where could Jewish people
go in 1939? What were the options for for French Protestants in 1560? Where
could peaceful Iraquis go when they bailed out of their own country in the
1990's? What would you have done as an ethnic Tutsi in Rwanda in 1994?

You may think of the world as a friendly place  - but for many it isn't!
>
> "France treats us badly" they say.
> Well, then, move the hell out of France, rather than trying to burn it
down.
>\Can't believe I'm defending France.

There are not too many virgin continents to send a new Mayflower too!
Jack Parkinson