[ExI] control of the narrative: was: RE: chinese fires, was:RE: book review

[Will Steinberg]

Also whose morals are you referring to?  I think you are talking about poor
people in general.  The color of your skin doesn't change your morals or
behavior.   Your economic and living situation does.

On Fri, Dec 2, 2022, 4:22 PM Will Steinberg <steinberg.will at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Lol dude 'black' as an adjective is ok.  'Blacks' is not considered ok.
> You should say 'black people'.  Just letting you know
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022, 2:10 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> I will admit to forgetting to use 'Blacks'.  But you did it yourself
>> Will.  I do admit to some bias (NOT prejudice) against Blacks:  I strongly
>> condemn their morals, and I don't want to get any flak about welfare
>> causing men to abandon their lovers and children.  So if that makes me
>> racist, to that extent I am racist
>>
>> I deal with a lot of Blacks, mostly working for me.  I treat them like
>> friends.  I feed them, I let them in the house to use the bathroom, and so
>> on - I'll bet not a lot of white people in the South go that far.  bill w
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 12:59 PM Will Steinberg via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>> From what I have gathered, WFW William is one of those 'southern boomer'
>>> liberals whose heart seeks mostly in the right place but also says things
>>> like 'blacks' and generally doesn't know he is being implicitly or
>>> explicitly racist or racist-adjacent some of the time.
>>>
>>> I try to remind myself that much of this list is in the 60-80 age
>>> bracket.   It comes with the territory I guess.
>>>
>>> I think he means to just point to the fact that intra-group murder rates
>>> are super high for poor black ghettoized city dwellers and that nobody
>>> seems to care, and that that is sad and fucked up, but the language is all
>>> bungled.
>>>
>>> WFW, correct me if I'm wrong.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022, 1:33 PM Mike Dougherty via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 2, 2022, 10:08 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Four young people slain with a gun on the south side of Chicago,
>>>>> doesn't even make the news ever. spike
>>>>>
>>>>> And why not?  No story there - just black gang members, in or out of
>>>>> prison, killing one another.  I suspect that data will show that killings
>>>>> other than domestic ones are overwhelmingly black and have no ideological
>>>>> agenda at all.  No news is not good news.  bill w
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You give spike for being a goofy kind of narrow-view that irritates
>>>> you... then you make this commentary that has no other quality than to
>>>> value signal your racism?
>>>>
>>>> Next time you think to post such, don't.
>>>>
>>>> There,  one of us said it.
>>>>
>>>> If nobody else corrects me for overstepping the bounds of etiquette,
>>>> you may assume we're all in agreement.
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