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From: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: American Indians - Persecution of?
Message-ID: <3789@reed.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 19:09:03 EDT
Article-I.D.: reed.3789
Posted: Fri Jul  4 19:09:03 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jul-86 08:59:27 EDT
References: <688@argon.idec.stc.co.uk> <2000@osu-eddie.UUCP> <56@uwmacc.UUCP>
Reply-To: soren@reed.UUCP (Soren Petersen)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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In article <56@uwmacc.UUCP> rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) writes:
>In article <2000@osu-eddie.UUCP> mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>>Speaking as an American with some moral values, I think that what this
>>country has done to the Indians is a disgrace.  It is another in a list of
>>things that make the rest of the world roll their eyes in disgust when
>>Ronnie starts wailing about everyone else's human rights abuses.
>
>I am sure that the English have stopped doing it to the Irish,
>the Irish Protestants to the Irish Catholics, the Moslems to the Hindus,
>the Russians to the Jews, the Jews to the Arabs, the Arabs
>to the ...
>	The rest of the world is up to its neck in its own atrocities, and is in
>no position to complain about America.
>

Good point.  The next time anyone wants to talk about the way the
American Indians were treated, I will be MORE than happy to start
discussing the Sepoy Mutiny or the Opium Wars or anything else I
can think of.


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