<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 2:42 AM Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 12:26 AM William Flynn Wallace via<br>
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> I will admit that some of us leftists are gaga over the LG etc. people. It's a very appropriate cause for us - the discriminated against, the misunderstood, the latest civil rights cause. But as we have seen for many years with Blacks, beating the drum for the cause can equate with beating people over the head with it. Tiresome - very quickly. Down here the newspapers include some civil rights stuff for Blacks once or twice a week, with pictures, history, references to lynching and so on. Too much of a good thing. I wonder if Blacks get tired of it too? bill w<br>
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I guess many Black do, because it belittles their personal<br>
achievements. I guess many Blacks want to be seen as strong and<br>
self-reliant persons, not as parts of an oppressed minority.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Don't guess. Ask them, if you want, but don't presume to speak for them. All that I've seen/heard speak on the matter would prefer not be in an oppressed minority. Being in one and pretending you're not isn't "strong".</div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>