[ExI] Section 230 and Antitrust

Dave Sill sparge at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 13:15:55 UTC 2021


On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 6:44 AM Omar Rahman via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> No, I stick by what I said. Races do not exist, not in a scientific sense.
>
> Reasons:
>
> 1) Even if you could you do genetically define a race (some mix of genes
> in some proportions), it would soon not match the population, even the
> population of an isolated island group after a few generations.
> 2) Even if you defined a race with a more flexible statistical model with
> some trend lines for shifts in the genetic makeup, it would ignore
> demographic and environmental shifts.
>

We're not going to agree on this so there's no point in arguing about it.

Any 16th century notion of ‘race’, that those people over there have
> characteristic X to degree Y, is so useless as to be OFFENSIVELY IGNORANT.
>

Yeah, that's racism, not race.

-Dave
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