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From: tjt@kobold.UUCP (T.J.Teixeira)
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Subject: Re: Irish Genocide: Lesson 3: First Blood
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Date: Thu, 29-Dec-83 19:46:31 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 29 19:46:31 1983
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This article (despite any alleged inaccuracies which I'm not qualified
to judge) does a reasonably good job of explaining how the
England-Ireland mess was started.

Curiously enough, it even explains much of the current situation, even
though the events in the article all happened several hundred years
ago: The Irish and the English each established stereotypes for the
other, and acted on them.  At the time, there may have been some
element of merit in these stereotypes, but it was all long ago.

Hundreds of years later, some Irishmen and some Englishmen are all too
willing to persists in these stereotypes and decide that the @#$% pigs
are only fit to be slaughtered.  Hence the ongoing atrocities in
England and Ireland.

			 * * * * * * * * * *

Rather than continuing to wallow in the muck and mire that caused this
situation, why doesn't Mr. McGhee propose a *constructive* solution to
the problem.

P.S. I don't consider "if the English don't leave Ireland we'll blow
them all up" constructive.
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	Tom Teixeira,  Massachusetts Computer Corporation.  Westford MA
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