The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31521   Message #410956
Posted By: Joe Offer
04-Mar-01 - 10:21 PM
Thread Name: American National Anthem
Subject: RE: American National Anthem
You know, it's not the comments against America that bother me - it's lumping everybody together and claiming they're all the same, and that they're all evil. It's the basis of every kind of racism and nationalism and jingoism and all those other "isms." If you want to class all Russians together or all Africans or all Europeans or all Jews or all Catholics together and then demonize them, I'd be every bit as offended.

I am not Bill Clinton. I am not George W. Bush. I am Joe Offer, and I'm a pretty nice guy - even if happen to be an American. Oh, and I happen to be a pacifist and a democratic socialist. Does that fit your American stereotype?

-Joe Offer-