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72 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 March 2008 05:09AM

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Comment author: spindizzy 06 March 2008 04:08:24PM -1 points [-]

You say: "The act of defining a word to refer to all humans, except black people, seems kind of suspicious"

This is gratuitously emotive and doesn't help to clarify your point.

Are you hoping to impress with your egalitarian conscience? Or are you hoping to politically bully your readers into agreement?

Please allow your arguments to rest on their own merits.