Fight the Power: encouraging

It does not take a genius to find, how the internet gathers many hidden alter egos to better a certain cause such as freedom/social justice/etc.

re; merks quote

It appears to me that much of "political (social) struggle" only tips the iceberg. The ideal form of this docu-drama is a History of Americanization, which would probably better suit the title. Again, we fail to see how glamorized American ideology has surfaced from its roots, into a popularized culture that repeats things that've happened in terms of world history from across the centuries as no different.

Honestly, what you all succumb to as Canadians on this board is quite astonishing, it speaks of how we pity ourselves to the ingnorance and plurality as wannabe Americans lacking our own identity. Open your eyes people!

I am not Chomskian by any stretch, (because I crave my own opinion), but take a huge step backward before buying into the shallow thoughts of American polarity in conscious.


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Please, let's not flatter ourselves here. I know where merk is coming from, and I am not speaking for him but for myself when looking in terms of American history as something interesting in and of itself. It's not that interesting if you ask me, but then that becomes a question of who you ask isn't it? The evolution of the world in terms of civilization-not-ergo-archeology per se... (speaking as in zinn's docu-drama) 'attitude towards history + history itself as a political act' = a massive pandora's box unopened. Once the p.box is opened, however, you must place emphasis on many aspects in 'why' things happened in a manner of epic proportions.


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Let's look at some of the general positives that relate to Americana-mania if you will. . . as if you were American. That is if I were completely immersed into the values of the US, and completely sheltered from the outside world as we know it.

(1) The civil rights movement.
(2) War.
(3) Slavery.
(4) The industrialization of America.

If I Were to write an essay on any of the above topics, notice not one of them covers The oppression of blacks in America, in fact it starts with slavery then ends with status quo, or perhaps the continuing power struggle of every black person in America that still harbors both racial/radical profiling on a daily basis without any support from it's powerful government? But - that is getting too personal a focus on topic.

The industrialization of America that compensates for the purpose of exploiting resources without any remorse, which begins with foreign policy such as the Regan Administration did against the USSR otherwise known as the cold war.

The civil rights movement which we can equate to how each American has its birthright held to such high standards, it so created a nuclear program. The first of it's kind. Ever!

War, by the way, that has made the US military a force to be reckoned with the US single handedly pronounced any declaration of war to be permanently waged only if it makes a fair load of lucrative ends. Yes, a means to an end, but only as a MEANS.

Conclusion:

It is little wonder no one in their right mind would care to pay in excess of $200,000 to a major US college. The price you pay keeps any student from feeling guilty of the bullshit they have to spew out. Pump it up.

Anti-Americanization (translated into non fictional terms) = we've had enough, to put it nicely. . . you believe you've reinvented the wheel, but your training wheels are about to fall off.

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“Freedom of speech is an American concept, so I don't give it any value”

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They used the word concept, instead double talked it as 'right'.

Proof:

They've expected the reader misuse the word concept, replacing it as 'right'. Therefore, moot. Easy enough fallacy to grab, unless your insolent of virtue or just performing multiple depository in your anus.

Honestly, I wonder sometimes what people have left in terms of intelligent value. I should choose to keep the faith. But when you read something of so little favor, it insults your intelligence, that it begs the question, it reminds me of where the time has gone.

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Oh the irony!


Seriously, if we're not contingent on the actual meaning, there is a course of action you can take other than demeaning or degradation of sorts. Was anything done to you merk, dealing with the subject of the matter which I provided you?

The meaning was simple. . . I accuse the author of the source which you quoted with a questionable use of language. Proof: that if you (agree with me) . . .then for starters. . . we take the word 'right' then replace it with the word which the author used as 'concept'. What I imply by demonstrating this to you, is the author in question deliberately manipulated the reader with a false idea. That being - 'freedom of speech' - as refered to it was a 'concept'. My conjecture is that unless you see past what the author's intent truly is, is to manipulate the reader into thinking of something that cannot be true. It is a matter of principle. In my mind, you cannot prove freedom of speech as a concept to begin with. It is an inherent right of the individual.


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After reading some of the unintelligent forms of responses given by merk, and hap being humble, yet open, courteous and honest against belligerent proxy.

Honestly, merk, between you and I. . . you show little respect. However, my personal choices do not reflect the same type of typical American folklore that you've offered the discussion. It is not common for me, or a person of the 'least/lowest denominator' to stand up and fight for freedom.

What I am referring to is the type of response you repeatedly give to myself, in a manner of insulting my intelligence.

What I would also like for you to understand, is that the respecting opinions of others is by and large the number one issue here.


First of all, if you take a fatalist argument and then proceed to make a tangent about how blacks are better for the struggle they've endured, they've survived and should be proud. Wouldn't this also equate to how suffering was not only needless, but it has no place in historically reliving such peace of mind? The point you made as arbitrary as it is - is senseless contextually in the use of history, should not reflect the will of a people that were oppressed undeserving of it. What I found equally repulsive was your use of an explicitive to arrogantly displace the 'normal' stereotype of black's in america as 'horse shit' because they weren't given the freedom they had, they stuck around long enough to earn things.

If you seriously read my responses, I directly accuse you of ethnocentric american indulged exhibitionist type of rhetoric only to display your points.


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you just can't sell as many books if the subject is not America.



Just, wow. Sheer brutal ignorance.

P.S. And that mike, is how one does things around here. Canada, eh.