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StellaSlight · 04-11-2004, 07:14 PM

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Originally posted by sum1:
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Furthermore, as regards the term "anti-American", it means "against America". If something said seems to be highly against America, I don't see how it makes sense to say we can't say so. Of course, it's true that people can be accused of making "anti-American" statements when they're not. That should be avoided.

I know how that would feel too, because, on a board I post on, a particular poster used to repeatedly accuse me of "France-bashing" whenever I made any criticism of France. No matter how many times I explained myself, they repeatedly accused me of prejudice and they told me that all my posts were "France bashing" (never mind that the majority of my posts had nothing to with France, let alone "France-bashing"). That's no more reasonable than people responding to any criticism of America with accusations of "anti-Americanism".
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Hee! You edited right after I posted, but I kinda knew you would bring up that subject. Hehe, seriously I would have been disappointed if you had not. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Actually I didn't call you France-basher. I said that you had a problem with France in general, always bringing up France as the counter-exemple of our arguments, calling us anti-semitic and racist people, hypocrit nation etc... I said there had been France-bashing before that (after the heat wave), but I wasn't mentioning you.
That said, I feel that words might have been harsher that I had thought, but it's hard to know when caught in a personal fight. Doesn't mean it's right, though.