RE: wow - is a "shadow" politician still a politician?

["Chris Blask" <chris () loftyperch com>]

From: Drsolly [mailto:drsollyp () drsolly com]
Sent: Wed 8/29/2007 3:33 PM
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Chris Blask wrote:

> > Sent: Wed 8/29/2007 1:13 PM
> > Drsolly bleated:
> > > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Brian Loe wrote:
> > > On 8/29/07, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
 
> > > Well, if I were American (which thank the lord I'm not) I'd be willing to

> > Aha!  The true colors come out - a racist bigot!

> Huh? How is it racist to be glad I'm not American? "American" isn't a
race, it's a country.

If you need to defend definition of what type of group you are offending you're on pretty shaky ground... 

> > Glad to know you have a Klan to belong to that provides you with a
> > blanket right to hate an arbitrary group.

> Americans aren't an arbitrary group, and I don't hate them. I don't know
> how you got from "I'm glad I'm not American" to the idea that I hate them.

Populations are arbitrary groups, such as 'Brits", 'Pakistanis", 'Yanks" etc...
 
I suppose you lined up in my sights as Poster-child of the moment for the "tolerant of all but Americans" crowd.  Being 
a Yank in Canada (where one can be "anything-Candaian" - so long as it isn't American-Canadian - and recieve on 
outpouring of societal support) I am more than a little sick of the popular hobby of using ideals that I hold very dear 
to insult me and everything I believe in.
 
It would be fun to hear folks swapping their usage of "American" and other nations in conversation.  Would thier mouths 
be capable of forming the words "The rich history and culture of America" or inversely "thank the lord I am not 
[French/British/Pakistani/Korean/...]"?
 
The fundamental values of equality and reason that I believe are core aspects of my national culture are being used 
incsincerely by people to justify thier self-satisfying inequitous and irrational views.

> > It's always so interesting to find the hypocrisy at the base of the
> > self-styled Enlightened.  "All cultures are good, all people are great-
> > except for that group over there!".  On behalf of myself and my culture
> > - in a manner that fits with your evolved worldview - have a Nice Time
> > as you go fuck yourself. :~)

> You're an American, aren't you. I can tell.

Hey, I'd hate to communicate with you in a way your deeply-held prejudices would not accept.  You know us stupid 
mouth-breathing Americans are not sophisticated enough to deliver our negative opinoins through oblique references 
filled with insincere pleasantries designed to let us save face in all possible situations.  Just have to use simple 
little words to say what we really think and hope those of the Greater Cultures can put up with us...

-good luck wiht that prejudice thing!
 
-chris
 
'I was with the Americans when they blundered into Berlin in 1918." - Louis, CAsablanca

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