1. The treatment of the disadvantaged and the poor are very much in line with the kind of thinking I've known from Wall Street that preferred to call Muslims "Camel drivers" rather than oil men or Sheiks. The same for any other ethnicity. The one constant in all of this is that the system seems to turn any group that makes it into the system into bigots and racists towards other less advantaged groups. We have a common market in Europe and elsewhere and the tolerant laws are enacted but are ignored and the bragging about enactment increases as the basic abuse accelerates. What seems endemic to Wall Street and it's mud wrestling is also true of the more erudite European socialist on the other side. Note the Scandinavians in this Roma story. In the U.S. the left's inability to hear religious folks is beyond tone deaf. I'll admit that the religious are often the uber side of parochial and difficult to tolerate socially with their proselytizing attitudes, but it's just a culture and has its own rules just as the other cultures do. So no, it's not off topic. It's another look at the same fire from a different angle. Don't things look different from the top of the Matterhorn than they do on another peak?
2. (Sarkozy and LePen) Are you saying that Democracy is systemically bigoted? What do you suggest in its place? REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christoph Reuss Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 6:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Futurework] "America "on the unlit, unpaved road to nowhere." REH wrote: > EUROPE > Citizen Rights Don't Apply to Roma What does this have to do with the previous posting that you quoted? (Except as another misguided off-topic attempt at "tit for tat".) > By the end of this year, France is set to adopt legislation > to expel undocumented Roma residing in the country, "for > reasons of public order." Shouldn't Sarkozy know better? Oh, I see, he has to bid for LePen's electorate again... But that pretty much turns your "good/bad" scheme to its ear, doesn't it? Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
