[ExI] How Corporate Media distorts Hawaiian Protests

[William Flynn Wallace]

As for me, there is nothing good to say about me.

John K Clark

Be fair.  I have not seen you say anything good about me or anyone else on
the list.  Are you fishing for compliments?

bill w


On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:00 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 9:07 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> >> Not if you count those who vent their anger against me.
>>
>>
>> *> No. If you feel that way, then please prove it.*
>>
>
> I need only to point at the very post I'm responding to right now.
>
> *> They don’t seem very violent to me.*
>
>
> For the first time in over 50 years the entire observatory was shut down
> and shut down for an entire month, do you think they did that for no
> reason? The astronomers shut everything down because they were intimidated
> by violence and the threat of violence and because they knew the police
> would not protect them from barbarians despite what the law says.
>
> *> You accuse people who dislike the term barbarian to be dangerously
>> flirting with newspeak. That’s not the case. “a person from an alien land,
>> culture, or group believed to be inferior, uncivilized, or violent *
>>
>
> Then my usage of the word "barbarians" was entirely correct because the
> criminals who destroyed the Thirty Meter Telescope and prevented new
> knowledge from entering the world were certainly uncivilized and violent
> and morally inferior to people who did not want the Thirty Meter Telescope
> destroyed and craved new knowledge.
>
> And I note that this is yet another post that is all about me. Despite
> your earlier claim to be more angry at the protestors than with me this
> much longer post goes on and on about my moral and intellectual failings
> but contains not one word of criticism for the thugs who destroyed the
> Thirty Meter Telescope, in fact you say good things about them "They don’t
> seem very violent to me" and "They are part of a civilization" and " they
> don’t seem to be personally rude" and "I haven’t heard any crass jokes".
>
> As for me, there is nothing good to say about me.
>
> John K Clark
>
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