-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- For what it's worth, Webster's defines: rac.ism \'ra--.siz-*m\ \-s*st\ n 1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race 2: RACIALISM - rac.ist n "http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster" Thus no two of "racists", "separatists" and "race-haters" would be identical sets of people. But with a high degree of overlap, I'd warrant. This means that Abraham Lincoln was a racist, by the way. (That definition isn't too good, though. "_The_ primary determinant"? I would have to classify as racist those who believe that race is _a_ primary determinant of those qualities.) Sorry to be off-topic, but if a thing is going to be discussed I might as well try to add signal. (The "[NOISE]" tag that I left in the subject line doesn't indicate noise, but off-topicness.) Perhaps we could just drop the "Cc: cypherpunks" part and continue this discussion? Regards, Bryce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i Comment: Auto-signed under Unix with 'BAP' Easy-PGP v1.1b2 iQB1AwUBMX4F7EjbHy8sKZitAQHOgQMAn3+no8l1gYl9jpS0V5IFwK2WwOVRlkY4 cp1h7GEE1uW/Ky/djlOkfHfrbsfIoDSwr4N6dUZAhyhyjWu9eDXwdoLHGLdROR72 sMBnmsd/QrJ02Mptywt52wqCXN1iDkzz =yv4l -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----