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1997-11-15 - Re: Tim May’s offensive racism

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Message Hash: 0667e92717e30a20c212a145425c287801122f7c0f77af6e0668370f806667de
Message ID: <19971115000110.24436@songbird.com>
Reply To: <42ca13f9d34086b1b366bbfe8ab5e9da@anon.efga.org>
UTC Datetime: 1997-11-15 08:17:42 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 16:17:42 +0800

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From: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 16:17:42 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Tim May's offensive racism
In-Reply-To: <42ca13f9d34086b1b366bbfe8ab5e9da@anon.efga.org>
Message-ID: <19971115000110.24436@songbird.com>
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On Fri, Nov 14, 1997 at 12:22:43PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
> At 7:17 AM -0700 11/14/97, Paul Bradley wrote:
> 
> >and liberty ethic. As for white supremacy, look elsewhere, I think you`ll
> >find Tim`s post an example of what the developed world knows as humour,
> >not a serious attack on any ethnic group.
> 
> Just so.

Not so.  Tim is clearly a racist.

> I'm actually delighted the Joichi Ito has, on the basis of my humor,
> denounced me as a racist.  As a member of a "mongrelized society," as one
> prominent Japanese put it a while back (and not back in the 1940s...it was
> the 1980s), I am always happy to be called a racist by someone from one of
> the most racially homogeneous nations on earth, a nation which of course
> did not allow any "boat people" to settle in their nation, all the while
> denouncing the U.S. for letting only several hundred thousand boat people
> in.

Translation:  Don't look at me, look at those dirty racist japs.

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