When you call something a 'walk in the park' you deserve and should expect that to be disputed, your defense is bringing up subjects I do not dispute and did not raise, I am very well aware of Colonial atrocities and American atrocities, I am not in the habit of declaring one atrocity irrelevant because another was worse, or was the Srebrenica Massacre a 'walk in the park' because WWII was worse?
Considering your own recent reaction to 'blood libel' I find your casual use of 'walk in the park' and accusatory defense of it rather surprising. I have not at any point claimed the US was clean-handed or suffered abnormally rough treatment compared to others, I also can not fathom why you think abusing and murdering prisoners who served as soldiers is somehow different then doing that to anyone else. Killing someone on the battlefield or even roughing up enemy soldiers right after the event is a whole different story than brutalizing them in controlled and prolonged captivity. There is a reason Americans and Filipins were pissed of about the Bataan Death March.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, mine, if you choose to look back, was simply "British Colonialism wasn't a walk in the park... You maybe forgotten or are unaware of the British Prison Ships like the HMS Jersey?" Considering you have said you were unaware, this would seem to boil down to you feeling walk in the park is okay language, and it is, if you are trying to make some point on relative suffering, I think that gap is way smaller than you do and I find your choice of words very poor.
Considering your own recent reaction to 'blood libel' I find your casual use of 'walk in the park' and accusatory defense of it rather surprising. I have not at any point claimed the US was clean-handed or suffered abnormally rough treatment compared to others, I also can not fathom why you think abusing and murdering prisoners who served as soldiers is somehow different then doing that to anyone else. Killing someone on the battlefield or even roughing up enemy soldiers right after the event is a whole different story than brutalizing them in controlled and prolonged captivity. There is a reason Americans and Filipins were pissed of about the Bataan Death March.
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make, mine, if you choose to look back, was simply "British Colonialism wasn't a walk in the park... You maybe forgotten or are unaware of the British Prison Ships like the HMS Jersey?" Considering you have said you were unaware, this would seem to boil down to you feeling walk in the park is okay language, and it is, if you are trying to make some point on relative suffering, I think that gap is way smaller than you do and I find your choice of words very poor.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
If anyone's looking for up-to-date info on what's going on in Egypt
28/01/2011 08:08:31 PM
- 624 Views
Clarify: Democracy fans should favor the protesters because they have more violent thugs,right?
28/01/2011 11:37:48 PM
- 475 Views
and socialism fans should favor the violent dicator since he can bring order and subsidies
29/01/2011 12:16:37 AM
- 342 Views
He mainly seems to bring close diplomatic ties to the US and alternatives to the Muslim Brotherhood
29/01/2011 12:59:48 AM
- 494 Views
You might want to do a quick check on the political situation in Egypt at this time.
29/01/2011 11:37:02 AM
- 407 Views
I've done a quick one; it makes me question whether government by the protesters would be better.
29/01/2011 11:44:10 PM
- 378 Views
It's a fairly simple matter, really.
29/01/2011 11:52:41 AM
- 417 Views
The trouble with free elections is: They're free.
29/01/2011 11:53:22 PM
- 327 Views
A vote for dictatorship and against democracy it is. Just checking.
30/01/2011 12:08:41 AM
- 367 Views
I haven't cast a vote.
30/01/2011 02:02:11 AM
- 347 Views
Not one that counts no, but still.
30/01/2011 01:11:59 PM
- 814 Views
None of any kind.
31/01/2011 12:10:07 AM
- 389 Views
so you support tyranny of others if it makes things more comfortable for you?
30/01/2011 05:15:01 AM
- 388 Views
I oppose brutal oppression; I'm unconvinced either side in this will end it, thus I withhold support
30/01/2011 05:21:37 AM
- 332 Views
some times it is black and white
31/01/2011 12:37:36 AM
- 332 Views
I fully support their right to demand democracy; I don't expect they'll get it, whatever happens.
31/01/2011 01:45:23 AM
- 528 Views
You're not seriously expecting them to do their revolution American Revolution-style, are you?
29/01/2011 11:28:31 AM
- 392 Views
I think terrorizing innocents and torching buildings is a poor way to claim the moral highground.
29/01/2011 11:32:19 PM
- 394 Views
British Colonialism wasn't a walk in the park
30/01/2011 03:53:58 AM
- 347 Views
Comparatively speaking, yes, it really was. Or at least in the US - not always so much in Asia.
30/01/2011 10:42:53 AM
- 337 Views
Re: Comparatively speaking, yes, it really was. Or at least in the US - not always so much in Asia.
30/01/2011 02:32:52 PM
- 391 Views
You can't be serious.
30/01/2011 03:07:18 PM
- 326 Views
Pretty serious
30/01/2011 04:52:24 PM
- 483 Views
Re: Pretty serious
30/01/2011 05:11:50 PM
- 376 Views
This is ridicolous
30/01/2011 05:31:31 PM
- 437 Views
I wouldn't normally think this necessary with you, but okay: let's go back and see what I said.
30/01/2011 06:34:09 PM
- 408 Views
you forget that it was supposdely thier own citizens the British were abusing.
31/01/2011 12:39:33 AM
- 429 Views
Sure, but organized into hostile armies. A rather different matter, that. *NM*
31/01/2011 09:46:25 PM
- 149 Views
I dont know if this will help you understand what is going on there
30/01/2011 02:45:41 AM
- 364 Views
Yikes indeed
29/01/2011 03:57:25 AM
- 388 Views
Apparently Egypt blocked access to Facebook, Twitter and some other websites.
29/01/2011 11:38:46 AM
- 348 Views
Heh, her update was basically "Thanks for turning facebook back on, Egypt."
29/01/2011 06:36:49 PM
- 307 Views
There seems to be some big misconceptions about the Egyption crisis
31/01/2011 11:52:37 PM
- 624 Views