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Re: No Rules
- Subject: Re: No Rules
- From: Jeffrey Goldberg <{$news}$@goldmark.org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 12:44:50 -0700
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- Newsgroups: uk.current-events.us-bombing
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- Reply-To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey+news@goldmark.org>
On Sep 12, 2001 MikeG <mikeg@mikeg.net> wrote
in <tpv3ubdg38i850@corp.supernews.com>:
> "Paul Harper" <paul@harper.netNOSPAM> wrote:
>
> > But then, I'm not an American, so it may well
> > be easier for me to see the flaws in the statement.
>
> Very classy. I wondered how long it would take for the good old
> European anti-American snobbery to come into play [...] If I had said
> something about Arabs, I would no doubt have been a racist, [...] Euro
> snobs have for a long time been able to convince themselves that
> similar prejudice against Americans doesn't count because there are no
> a race.
Paul's instance of European anti-Americanism is at most mild and at best
actually consistant with what you said yourself in a previous post.
However, if you want to read a rant against European anti-American
snobbery, see my posting
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