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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing
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Date: Wed, 31-Jul-85 03:15:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 31 03:15:13 1985
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First I write:
>>Here it comes... the massive flame saying "how can you pick on the good
>>'ol USA?!!!!" I'm not really. I never said that we were the evil of the
>>universe, I merely meant to point out that our hands are not spotless. A
>>simple assertion such as "we are not on the same moral plane" is
>>ludicrous! 

So Larry (LaRue) Kolodney comes back with:
>Be serious Charles.  Nothing in the history of the United States
>in this century compares with the outright genocide that occured in the
>soviet union during the stalin era.
>
>Come on Charles, you can stop proving how "politically correct" you are.
>You don't have to feel obliged to go overboard in fighting anti-soviet
>hysteria by being equally blind in the opposite direction.

I didn't say anything about us being "as bad", "worse" or even "better"
than the soviets. I was, in fact, merely claiming that such value
judgement have no point in the issue (which was that many foriegners
don't like Americans).

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"You are a stupid fool."
-Wang Zeep

"I'm not a fool!"
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