At 10:37 AM 6/21/01 +1000 Russell Chapman wrote:
>I think you're reaching a bit there - we weren't debunking reasons for
Americans to
>have pride in the US, we were debunking 2 things:
>some of your specific claims as being erroneous, and
>the general claim that it is OK to be arrogant if you have sufficient
levels of pride.
>As far as I can see, apart from minor nitpicking, that was pretty clear.
Good Grief.
In my very first post on the subject, I specifically stated that I was
*NOT* arguing that it is OK to be arrogant.
In case you missed it, I repeated the matter in two of my next four posts
on the matter.
And if that still wasn't enough, once Dan Minette explaned my position in
other terms, I *twice* drew attention to that post.
Yet, after all this, some people still insist upon arguging against a
position that I do not hold. Indeed, no Brin-L'er holds that position, as
far as I could tell. I simply just never got what the point of that
exercise was.
As far as the other responses being minor nitpicking, at least one
list-member wrote:
"Btw in the mean time a lot of the items in that post have been stricken
because they weren't sole or major American accomplishements at all."
To me, "a lot" =/ "nitpicking."
JDG
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