Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[s.roman]

I just thought the whole fascists and bigots remark in his initial
post was completely unnecessary. I don't know about you, but it seems
to me that he meant that only such people would disagree with his
post...

Even if a majority of Americans are narrow-minded people, that does
not mean there's some given right to speak offensively about them, or
rather us (Not sure whether I consider myself American. Haven't spent
enough time here to make such a decision.)

I didn't try to belittle him. I was just offended by some of his "side" comments

Roman.

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 20:33:50 GMT, Michael S. Jessop
<candiazoo at comcast.net> wrote:
> Don't even let him get to you.   People everywhere like to think they
> are more enlightened than the people everywhere else in the world.
> Truth is, we are all the same, no matter where you go.  There are
> idiots here in the US, over in the UK and elsewhere.  :)  He just likes
> to get his digs in and try and claim he wasn't getting digs in, that
> they are factual because of ip addresses... blah blah.
> 
> We've heard it all before, no?
> 
> Like the song from Depeche Mode goes...
> 
> "I can't understand what makes a man hate another man..."
> "People are people so why should it be
> you and I should get along so awfully..."
> 
> >I guess according to your logic, any US resident is imperialistic and
> >evil. Way to generalize.
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:37:22 +0000, Shango Oluwa <shango at mewe.org.uk>
> wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 08:17 -0500, Michael S. Jessop wrote:
> >> > I am a Freemason and when we meet in Lodge there is one very
> strict
> >> > rule:  NEVER discuss Religion or Politics!  It is forbidden in an
> open
> >> > Lodge because it can generate too many bad feelings... sort of
> >> > contradictory to a brotherhood of friendship.   :)
> >> >
> >> > Maybe it should be adopted for this list.
> >>
> >> I am now in agreement with such a principle - for this list at
> least,
> >> since altho' there were plenty of measured, intelligent dialogues as
> a
> >> result of my original post, there has been an equal amount of
> hysteria
> >> and vitriol from (exclusively) US registered domains: reactions to
> >> exposed imperialist nerve-endings being touched, no-doubt...
> >>
> >> I believe my original post was user-related and therefor on-topic.
> >> I over-estimated this list's capacity for dialogue and contention
> and
> >> will bear that in mind in future.
> >>
> >> As I asked 3 times before this, can a moderator please move this
> thread
> >> to Sounder or Community Chat?
> >>
> >> Shangokoya
> >> Onwumelu
> >> Ositadimma
> >>
> >> Shango Oluwa
> >>
> >>
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