[ExI] powerful image

[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 4:45 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> The reason for 'them' and 'they' is that they are different from me in
> ways that are significant to me.  Morally. Theirs is a different culture.
> And I don't want to be considered any part of it.  I am not a part of the
> relativism movement in moral philosophy.
>
> It is a point that several black professors of national standing have made
> and said that blacks need to correct if they want to be regarded as
> equals.  If you do not know what I am talking about, you are quite ignorant
> and you might want to fix that.
>
> Another thing you might want to fix is preaching to me.  I suggest you
> pick another person if you want to try to 'correct' their moral thinking.
>
> I will, as always, continue to disregard their color and treat them as I
> will anyone else.
>
> This is the end of my part of this thread.
>

Wow. I wonder if anyone else reading this thread would like to arbitrate?

I specifically directed "i vs you" to "we" so to subject could be less
prone to being physically slighted.  I just had this same conversation with
my dad for how his use of language makes him sound racist and how that
makes my wife immediately confrontational about it.

Theirs is a different culture.  Yours is a different culture.  Mine is a
different culture.  Yours is the morally superior position. I'm ignorant,
but have nothing to learn from the end of your part of this thread.

For anyone else that might explain how this thread could go so wrong in two
replies... what is the nature of the difficulty here?

Was my point so poorly made that offense was the only way to react?

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