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In reply to the discussion: Does this seem fair? [View all]

whathehell

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14. It's precisely that realization that reveals your egregious overstatement, not to mention
Fri Dec 20, 2013, 09:25 PM
Dec 2013

bigotry, in characterizing our entire nation as "lunacy" because of one relatively recent issue which is now under review.

Your national religion is not simply an "historic issue", it's a present reality and please don't make me laugh

at a pathetic self-righteousness that dismisses all the crimes committed by YOUR empire when you had one.

Beyond its crimes against Ireland, India, Colonial America, China, and others, your history, as well as every

other European's is FILLED with murder of the "native populations"...it's a simple matter of how far one

goes back. Whether one considers the Picts, the Anglo-Saxons, the Romanized Brits, the Romanzed

the Protestants under "Bloody Mary" or the Catholics under "Good Queen Bess", I think most would agree that Britain

did a fine job of murdering its own inhabitants.

"I do realise that you probably can't relate much to historic events"?.....No, you actually don't "realise" squat

because apart from my nationality, you do not, in fact, KNOW anything about me, so I'm afraid that's just a bigoted

ASSUMPTION on your part.

As it happens, I'm actually quite fond of history, and am well-versed in that of both your country

and mine, along with those of the countries from which my ancestors emigrated.

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Does this seem fair? [View all] Playinghardball Dec 2013 OP
No dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #1
The UK whathehell Dec 2013 #3
The reference subject here is the pot penalty dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #6
what do you mean "you"? hfojvt Dec 2013 #7
No. dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #8
So the Angles & Saxons took over from the Celts Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #9
Uh huh.. whathehell Dec 2013 #18
You forgot the Romans Drahthaardogs Dec 2013 #21
It's precisely that realization that reveals your egregious overstatement, not to mention whathehell Dec 2013 #14
I don't expect you to see another reply on this subthread... n/t TroglodyteScholar Dec 2013 #16
and why would that be, pray tell? whathehell Dec 2013 #17
um because you won.. n/t TroglodyteScholar Dec 2013 #19
---- whathehell Dec 2013 #22
It is great to see progressives in both countries quarrel Ash_F Dec 2013 #13
Yes, you could put it that way, I suppose. whathehell Dec 2013 #15
Fight ! Fight ! toby jo Dec 2013 #10
lol dipsydoodle Dec 2013 #12
K&R. n/t Egalitarian Thug Dec 2013 #2
It's incredibly unfair, and President Obama has started rolling back whathehell Dec 2013 #4
K&R Arkansas Granny Dec 2013 #5
No! Paper Roses Dec 2013 #11
not fair at all Liberal_in_LA Dec 2013 #20
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