[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 12:32:12 -0800
From: "joerg benesch" <jgruel@xxxxxxxxxx>
My point was not geopolitics, I siimply wanted to know whether you (Eric) really backed
the large-scale atrocities committed in your name; you resort to silly jokes. I have to
take it as it is: over here, someone with your "world-view" would easily qualify as a
neo-Nazi, and be banned from public life: that's not a "clash of cultures", it's just
drawing the line between civilisation and barbarianism.
Joerg,
That's one of the odd features of American public life that stands out. Here in the US, one
can say utterly barbaric things and everyone will smile politely. Nobody seems to take words
seriously. Maybe it's too much liberal tolerance.
You can see this on the list: Lawrence and Eric talk ceaselessly in public about massive
murder, and hardly anyone says anything. These two think they are normal. More than that,
they think everyone else is weak because the others don't support their wish for mass
killing.
I've never seen this on any other list. Nowhere have I ever met people like Eric and
Lawrence who want to kill so much. I grew up in Tennessee, where I knew many people who were
in the Ku-Klux-Klan. Not even they talked about race murder as much as Lawrence and Eric.
Beat up a few darkies, yes, but that was just talk. They certainly didn't dare to talk about
it in public, as Lawrence and Eric do.
You're right, in Europe, such people would be banned from public life. Others would tell
them to act reasonable, to stop the talk of killing. Lawrence and Eric would feel pressure
from society to behave in a civilized manner. But not in the USA.
I wish I could say to everyone here who isn't American that Lawrence and Eric don't
represent the USA. I wish I could say that decent Americans distance themselves from these
two. But everyone outside the USA can see that this wouldn't be true. Lawrence and Eric
actually do represent the USA, both in foreign and domestic matters. Everyone outside the
USA can see how the Bush White House dealt with the Arabs in Iraq and the Blacks in New
Orleans.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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