From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 00:13:57 +0800
To: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
Subject: Re: New free speech oriented civil rights site
Message-ID: <199711301603.RAA23723@basement.replay.com>
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Anonymous <nobody@REPLAY.COM> wrote:
>Cypherpunks need to build bridges to minority communities, to show
>them how these technologies can advance their cause.

Members of abused minority groups should be pretty much in sync with a
lot of concerns held by cypherpunks.  When we talk about police
brutality and concentration camps, most of us, as well as our friends
and relatives, have little direct experience.  This is not true of
many members of minority groups.

Sounds like a nice project.  Good luck!

>Racist comments by supposedly respected list members are harmful and
>must be countered in order to show that these views do not reflect
>the feelings of most cypherpunks.

If we do our job properly, the cypherpunk public image won't
matter. ;-)

>Cypherpunk technologies will be a major force to eliminate racism.
>With privacy protected transactions, the color of a person's skin,
>his religion and his ethnicity are no longer apparent.  People will
>be able to succeed on merit - and not the "good old boys" definition
>of merit, where somehow only white males seem to have what it takes.

White males are a minority group.  Also, I believe you are
overestimating the effects of racism when it comes to hiring talented
technical professionals.  If not, there is a tremondous arbitrage
opportunity out there.

Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm

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