At 02:14 PM 4/29/02, Brad DeLong wrote: >Jeroen van Baardwijk wrote: > >>> Jeroen, your snide comments insult me, they >>> insult my parents, and they insult every person >>> that fought the injustices of that period. >> >> Then maybe now you can understand how I must feel, >> seeing my fellow Europeans over and over again >> insulted by (mostly false) accusations of >> anti-Semitism, "enthusiastically helping the >> Nazis round up the Jews" and "not doing anything >> to help the Jews". >> >> Sucks, huh? > > >Jeroen-- > >Is this really the style of argument you want to adopt? That because you >think an unfair and slanderous attack has been made against X, you are >going to respond by making an unfair and slanderous attack against Y? > >I haven't seen anything this stupid since 1991?was it?, when some >boneheaded African-American sophomore responded to the guy from Alabama >who had hung a Confederate flag in his window by hanging a Nazi flag in hers.
Hmm. So if I get a Nazi flag and a Rebel flag and hang them in adjacent windows (or from side-by-side flagpoles out front), everybody will be happy because they will assume I am not bigoted . . . ? -- Ronn in Birmingham, AL :)
