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FWIW, these signs are on all of the lamp posts in my neighborhood.  



Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:12:38 PM EST
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Somehow with Sarkozy it makes him look like a villain in a Batman movie.

That would have been a 90s Batman movie by Joel Schumacher, to wit.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:20:02 PM EST
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Hilarious.  Dead. On.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 06:00:29 PM EST
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on Worldview?

French Identity in the Obama Era

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:35:55 PM EST
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It was on today - yes I did.

I am still waiting for someone to write a diary about race here...

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:38:19 PM EST
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We've discussed it before. It gets ugly, largely because people insist on applying their local frames of reference inappropriately.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:40:25 PM EST
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The conversation goes roughly like this:

"When will Ireland elect a black President"?

<goggle> "Do you know how many ways the assumptions behind that question are broken??"

"RACIST!"

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:45:21 PM EST
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Well, I think that is unavoidable.  And the request for a diary was actually in reponse to some nut I met from East Germany who hated Russians, not "Will Ireland elect a black man?"  

It's a subject that is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss without people getting offended, but I've decided NOT discussing it can't be the answer.  Actually, I've very little concept of the situation in Europe.  Everyone has a different view of things.

Signed,
White girl who is dating black boy and suddenly realizing it's all messier than I was led to believe by my comfortable liberal progressive open-minded self-congratulatory world-view...

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 05:59:12 PM EST
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Is race even the right frame for that?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 06:07:00 PM EST
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For the German nut?  I don't know.  Since, uhm, race is a made up thing to begin with...  But it follows a pattern of 1) people with a history of disenfranchisement in ur neighborhood acting like criminalz, 2) who should go back to where they came from because we don't like their whole scene, and 3) whose bad behavior is often linked to genetics or ethnicity.  The last part I notice a lot when talking about Russians, even coming from Russians...  Anyway, I had this image of Europe as lightyears more tolerant than the US, but this German guy was just actively hating all Russians in a way that made me think I wouldn't want to be in a room alone with him if I were one.  

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
by poemless on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 06:19:59 PM EST
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poemless: It's a subject that is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss without people getting offended, but I've decided NOT discussing it can't be the answer.  ... Everyone has a different view of things.

agree 100%.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 06:24:09 PM EST
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It's a subject that is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss without people getting offended

May we soon enter the 22nd century, where humans might have overcome that stupidity, at least if Uhura is right.



Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den Menschen
Volker Pispers

by Martin (weiser.mensch(at)googlemail.com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 09:31:59 PM EST
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Well, if race hasn' been the primary topic of any diary so far, I think it has been a major theme in several diaries.

That clip doesn't just talk about race, though.  I was intrigued by what the one guy said about how many young French people are starting to see themselves more as European rather than as French.

I had heard this from many German students I met studying overseas, but not so much from other European countries.

Then again, this particular guy was half-French, half-Spanish, so he has a particular point of view.

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

by marco (cowannar at gmail punkt com) on Mon Dec 1st, 2008 at 06:00:08 PM EST
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