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Thread #148169 Message #3439921
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
21-Nov-12 - 12:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Thanksgiving--Debate
Subject: RE: BS: US Thanksgiving--Debate
Lizzie, I've ignored this thread till now. I know you mean well, but you conflate so many different groups and issues into these topics that you shoot yourself in the foot.
When you're visiting these US sites online you get a partial view of a lot of topics, like looking through a keyhole, and they aren't all weighted equally. For those of us who live here it is a lot of work telling the parties apart - for someone an ocean away the nuances are surely lost in translation.
Wesley S posted
" I'll remain helping via the internet, thanks.."
Gee thanks....
My grandmother was native American. And as far as I'm concerned Lizzie you'd be doing a lot more good if you were off stuffing your bird instead of ragging on America. Clean up England first and then we'll call you for help.
What he said. Lizzie, I know you mean well, but you don't seem to be able to filter all of it, you absorb all of this stuff, add a dose of passion, then dump it all into a Mudcat thread and verbally bludgeon the descendants of people who set a lot of this in motion.
There are many of us who are fully aware of how things stand and have acted in our own way to offer help. If that information isn't shared here with you it's is because you will always find it wanting and be critical of anything short of all white faces abandoning the continent. So no one who is seriously interested in these themes is going to talk much about this on your threads.
Like Wesley said, look around the UK and find one of your own messes to clean up. Aren't there downtrodden people in the UK where you can focus your attention and perhaps actually make a difference? All of the strife you cause at Mudcat as you chastise everyone here is hypocritical. You complain we haven't corrected our indigenous social ills - why not lobby on behalf of UK Travelers, or work to free the Scots. Do good works on behalf of the immigrants from former British colonies who live in slums across the UK. Is Wales lobbying for freedom? Surely there is something closer to home you can turn your energy and attention to?
SRS