Max, Angela, Chris, DL

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Apr 10 06:20:00 PDT 1999


Rob Schaap wrote:


>I reckon you two are overdoing your response to Boddhi.

Rob, this is what he said:


>The first problem is that the people of the Balkans are
>uncivilized and cannot resist the temptation to use ethnicity as an excuse
>for violence. This, I believe, is no insult but a clear representation of
>the facts. After weeks and months of hearing claims and counter-claims of
>atrocious behavior by Serbs, Croats, Albanians and all the rest, I have
>simply added up the instances of atrocious behavior and come to the
>conclusion that these people, all of them, are essentially hooligans.

"Uncivilized," unable to resist temptation, "essentially hooligans" - sorry, Rob, that's racist claptrap. If you said that about Jews or Africans, your ass would be rightly fried.

Doug



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