[lit-ideas] Re: The Baby and the Waterboard
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:00:11 +0000 (GMT)
> As for British prison hospitality offered to captured IRA
> agents/terrorists, there are plenty of stories about that.
> My intention was to suggest context.
"Context"? Is your argument really that Brits can't condemn the US for
torturing given that some IRA prisoners were tortured? Bizarre.
Incidentally
Same as "Argies," a neutral
> term.
I wouldn't call it neutral. I'd never heard it before the Falklands War.
--- On Fri, 24/4/09, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Baby and the Waterboard
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, 24 April, 2009, 9:51 PM
> JLS: Are you implicating that all IRA members in prison are
> _dead_ hence it's
> only 'Brits', as you derogatorily put it, who may
> 'reflect'?
>
> "Brits" ranks with "Yanks" for me, that
> is, a neutral term. Same as "Argies," a neutral
> term. Are you offended by reference to "Argies"?
> These terms -- Brits, Yanks, Argies -- are diminutives, and
> seem, to me anyway, to suggest a collegial respect and
> friendliness. To my mind, derogation involves imputing
> negative characteristics, like "Frog" for French.
>
> As for British prison hospitality offered to captured IRA
> agents/terrorists, there are plenty of stories about that.
> My intention was to suggest context.
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