Ant, I am repulsed by your attempt to deny the individual, thereby supporting slavery.
Micah -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ant McWatt Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [MD] Platt's race question Platt stated August 24th: Intellectuals pay lip service to racism being evil, but then support racial discrimination with race-based results in multiculturism and affirmative action. All attempts to end such social patterns based on skin color in order to progress towards a color blind society are roundly denounced -- a far cry from the MOQ goal of a morality based on intellectual principles of individual freedom, equal protection under the law, and advancement by merit -- not gender, class or color. Ant McWatt comments: Platt, Firstly, you have (yet again) put that weasel word individual in the phrase a far cry from the MOQ goal of a morality based on intellectual principles of individual freedom. However, part of the remit in the MOQ (being a Zen Buddhist derived philosophy) is to remind us that the concept of individual is a convenient fiction that needs to be recognised as such to reduce karmic suffering. It should therefore be avoided in the context of the MOQ and used only with qualification. See Steve Hagens 1997 book Buddhism Made Simple for more details (which, of course, is the book described by Pirsig as being the closest Buddhist text in outlook to the MOQ). Secondly, as a pragmatic philosophy, the MOQ implies that multi-culturalism and affirmative action will be necessary in a given society until the colour of ones skin becomes meaningless at the social level. For instance, having recruitment policies that encourage minorities to apply to social level services such as the police to ensure that the latter accurately reflect (in their staff composition) the actual composition of minorities in a community. Its a bit simple-minded to think that these type of intellectually guided corrections are racist in themselves as such policies are correcting an imbalance where intellectuals and others are not treating criminals equally, in the first place, because of the suspicion of existing institutional racism in such services as the police and judiciary (for instance, see the illustration below of the Rodney King case below). I think I figured out why the L.A. riots occurred. Did you guys see these cops testifying, man? Did these guys have balls or what, man? These guys carry their balls in a wheelbarrow, man. Scuse me, scuse me. Man with big balls is here to testify. Place your right testicle on the bible. BOOOM! (This guy [is] Officer Coon [of the LAPD] is life too fucking weird or what?) Officer Coon looks in the camera and actually says: Oh, that Rodney King beating tape, its all in how you look at it. The courtroom murmurs: Jesus, what balls. Ive never seen balls of this magnitude. He must have a specially fitted uniform in which to place these large testicles. Thats incredible. All in how you look at it, Officer Coon? Thats right. Its how you look at the tape. Well would you care to tell the court how youre looking at that? Yeah, okay, sure. Its how you look at it. For instance, if you play it backwards, you see us help King up and send him on his way. Platts fellow Talk Radio parrots on the jury: "Mmm . . . not guilty." Court usher: "'Scuse me, 'scuse me. Man with big balls has just been acquitted." Bill Hicks on Arizona Bay www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCxpSmVQIWU . _________________________________________________________________ Get Pimped! FREE emoticon packs from Windows Live - http://www.pimpmylive.co.uk Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
