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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: America-bashing
Message-ID: <10615@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Jul-85 11:52:44 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 21 11:52:44 1985
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> >Image is what we were discussing. Somebody was upset at the suggestion
> >that the rest of the world hates America. They wrote a long letter about
> >how wonderful we really are. Maybe it's true, but it's our image that
> >counts in this situation. A friend of mine returned from England and
> >told me:
> 
> >"Depending where you are, Russia and America are first and second on the
> >list of the most hated country."
> 
> I know a man who was walking down the street in broad daylight when someone
> attacked him from behind.  He wasn't robbed, just beaten.  Besides being hurt
> and scared, he was also bewildered.  He was wondering why someone hated him
> so much just to drop out of the clear blue sky and start beating on him.
> He had no idea whether it was something he said, did, or did not do.  This
> happened several years ago, and he still doesn't know.  Does that make him
> ignorant?  Even if he found the reason, does it justify the attack?  Would he
> deserve to be saddled with some guilt trip by someone who thinks that he must
> have made his attacker angry?  To stop this sort of thing from happening again,
> is it up to him to change in order to accomodate his attacker?  Nonsense.
> 
> The point is that I think it is rather naive to believe that people who are
> attacked must have deserved it; that becoming nicer or more docile will
> insulate you from hate.
> 
> These opinions belong to anyone who wants to claim them.
> 
> David Olson
> ..!ihnp4!drutx!dlo
> 
> "To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools". -- Jean de la Bruyere

You know, I've been hearing for 30 years now how much we are hated. And lately
I've been reading that it's a toss up between The U.S. and Russia for the most
hated country in the world award. I take particular offense at being compared
to Russia. We certainly are not on the same moral plane as Russia. But enough.
I'm fed up with those that say they hate us. It is their problem, their inse-
curity, their psychosis. What we have to realize is that it's their problem,
don't make it mine. Don't attempt to make me feel wrong, unethical, immoral, or
guilty. 
Someone once said if everyone likes me then for sure I must be doing something
wrong, and if the wrong people like me than I must be downright disgusting.
So let us leave the outrageous or unfounded opinions of the self rightious where
they belong, in the cerebral id from which they came.

"I hang out my yellow briefs for all the world to see, you hang yours in the
basement and say you never pee."