[ExI] How Corporate Media distorts Hawaiian Protests

[SR Ballard]

>The strong taking advantage of the weak.  Has it ever been any other way?  Should it be any other way?

You literally said the strong SHOULD take advantage of the weak. I know they DO, but I don’t think they should.

SR Ballard

> On Aug 30, 2019, at 11:39 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 11:00 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> I like how you (bill w) say you don’t care if the strong take advantage of the weak. That really gave me hope for the kind of future that extropians are trying to build.
>> 
>> SR Ballard
> 
> I never said I approved of it or did not care.  Please read carefully.  All I am saying that what's done is done and I didn't do it!!!.  The dead are not my responsibility.  Move on from here.  You must know that the strong taking advantage of the weak is how it has always been, right?  It's called evolution.  
> 
> Would I like to see a world where everyone has the same advantages?  Yes.  But that will never happen unless we evolve from what we are.  Or we modify ourselves with genetics.  A lot.
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> bill w
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>>> On Aug 30, 2019, at 10:42 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>>> Isn’t part of their (Native Americans, Hawaiians, descendants of chattel slavery) current conditions due to what happened to their ancestors?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Dan
>>> 
>>> Yes, of course, and my ancestors are responsible for it.  How far back in history do you want to go before the sins stop passing down?  I say who did the crime, does the time, and we didn't do it.  Every family that ever lived had something done to them in one way or another.  Should we find and prosecute the descendants of the people who cut off the heads of kings?  In my case you could help me go after AT and T!
>>> 
>>> Your attitude reminds me of a Scottish feud where the two clans are still fighting over something that happened in the 17th century.
>>> 
>>> There was a country song, the Eagles maybe?  It was titled  "Get over it"
>>> 
>>>   bill w
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:36 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>> On Aug 30, 2019, at 7:39 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>> Thus, these
>>>>> suggestions elide the stark power asymmetry between historically
>>>>> disenfranchised and marginalized Native Hawaiians and the
>>>>> billion-dollar, state-backed TMT project.  bill k
>>>>> 
>>>>> The strong taking advantage of the weak.  Has it ever been any other way?  Should it be any other way?
>>>> 
>>>> Huh?
>>>> 
>>>>> Are we going to give back land to the American Indians we drove them out of?  Hah.  Repay descendants of slaves?  Double hah.
>>>>> 
>>>>> We owe them nothing.  They lost.  I was born free of Original Sin or any other kind.  I don't feel sorry of any
>>>>> of them.  I do feel sorry for their ancestors.
>>>> 
>>>> Isn’t part of their (Native Americans, Hawaiians, descendants of chattel slavery) current conditions due to what happened to their ancestors?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Dan
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