Tim May wrote:
At 6:54 PM -0700 11/14/97, 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?
Their likely clients don't given one whit what comments they may have made on mailing lists. Hell, their clients don't even care if they're card-carrying members of the KKK.
Did anyone check out the Heaven's Gate group's computer work? I doubt that many of their customers would not welcome a chance to have them back on board. I've worked in plenty of environments where people had vastly different religious, social, racial and political beliefs, and most people don't (and shouldn't) give a rat's ass as long as they pull their weight. Of course, if enough people complain and picket, or whatever, then a 'cult' or a 'racist' or a 'sexist' can become a business liability, not due to the quality of their work, or their unfitness for the job, but because of the hateful intolerance of those with the 'right' beliefs. Want to experience hateful intolerance? Read your Bible and believe that it states the races should remain separate. You will soon be pointed out as a person who 'hates niggers' and burns crosses on their lawn, etc, etc, ad infinitum. Why? Because those being hatefully intolerant have the 'right' beliefs as to what the Bible says. (Am I a racist if I don't also include an example from the Koran?) The fact that different nations, races and idealists are busy slaughtering one another during various wars never seems to interfere with the balance sheets of the movers and shakers in the financial world. Many of our Presidents since World War II were elected as a result of the proceeds of their family or friends' ill-gotten war gains from supporting the war machines that their own children were fighting against. Little BillyG isn't going to go hungry tonight just because he's snake-bit, onery and mean.