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my apologies if what i write appears to go further than interpreting your words. i make inferences from what i read, and try not to go past that. i find that sometimes i get a bit impatient, and when that happens i can slip up this way. dont take it personally. but i will argue against the words you use. and you use many many problematic ones.
this is not to speak about your decision to refer to me as "junior" while complaining as you did in the last post.
anyway, onward to matters at hand.....
as for your line about a "war of survival"--well here we have the central justification for everything in bushworld. i think that justification is really dangerous--and while i would not argue that buying into it reflects any a priori disposition toward racism or self-absorption on your part personally (you are right, i do not know you), the effect of it is to structure political positions that are both. it is the word, and the frame of reference that it drags into play, that are the core of the problem.
again, the people i refer to above are as american as you are, wonderwench. period. you might not like it, but it is a fact. but the discourse enables you to seperate them arbitrarily into a "different culture" (fringe element or not). once you do that, then the problems i have been talking about are easy to justify. which is what you are doing. rather than engage with the problems the legal balck hole have created and create, and what these problems mean, you shift to another level and try to explain it all away. i dont buy it. try taking on the problems.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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