Re: STORY: The Transhumanist Racist

Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Sat, 12 Jun 1999 08:58:01 -0700

hanson@econ.berkeley.edu (Robin Hanson) writes:
>Delightful story Anders! Now what I most want to know is
>what such an audience's reaction would actually be. For all I
>know about such people, they might be *more* receptive to this
>message than a gathering of anti-racists.

There seem to be two obvious motives for racial hostility: - fear of increased competition in the labor markets with people who will do the same job for less.
- fear of cultural changes caused by different people moving into one's society.

It seems unlikely that either of these motives will be reduced by enhancing the "inferior" race.

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