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From: curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: I have here..
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Date: 17 Nov 90 22:53:43 GMT
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mnemonic@eff.org (Mike Godwin) writes:

> Me, I'm astonished that everyone didn't recognize Eric's reference,
> but some people I respect didn't, so I can't say I can condemn anyone
> for not recognizing it.

Well, I didn't recognise the reference, though I did see the
possibility that it might be a joke.

I think a lot of people on the net still don't quite realise that this
is an *international* network.  Ethnocentricism seems to be a
perennial problem in the United States.  U.S. history is not any more
important or well known (except to those of you who live there, of
course) than any other country.  There are many thousands of people
who read this stuff every day to whom the U.S. is just another
country, not anything special.

I'm not surprised that most, if not all, of you who live in the U.S.
and are reading this don't know about the FLQ.  Why should you be
surprised that I don't know details about McCarthy's speeches?

(Of course, now that I know about it, it is a rather entertaining
joke.  This whole topic was quite timely as well, since it happened
just before I saw *The Manchurian Candidate*.  :-))

cjs

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