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Re: Tim May's offensive racism (was: about RC4)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Mon Nov 17 00:46:22 1997

To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 97 00:00:58 EST
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19971116231506.0387c394@panix.com>
Reply-To: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)

frissell@panix.com writes:

> At 08:54 PM 11/14/97 -0500, Anonymous wrote:
> >It is astonishing that people like you and William Geiger, who apparently
> >make their living as consultants, feel so comfortable publicly approving
> >racist comments directed against the Japanese.  Does William expect ever
> >to work with a Japanese customer, after suggesting that Truman should
> >have dropped additional atomic bombs on Japan?
> >
> >Even if you share Tim May's lack of moral constraint, you presumably do
> >not also share his wealth.  Pragmatic considerations alone should make
> >you reluctant to be an apologist for racist comments, or in William's
> >case to compound the error with shockingly offensive remarks of his own.
>
> Actually, the beauty of modern capitalism is that there are so many customers

Net.scum like Ito-San try to get people fired from their jobs because of
what they say on the Internet.  Nuke the Yellow Peril (again)!

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