interesting game you're playing, all by yourself (see below).
Angela ------------- dl had written:
>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.
dl wrote most recently:
>Finally, not only does it not undermine one's empathy and compassion to
>call a person a bigot when that is true, one's empathy and compassion are
>not truly tested until one must have them for a bigot. I may be guilty
>of some loose talk, both uncompassionate and lacking empathy, for Balkan
>bigots but no condemnation of them as people can be ascribed to me,
however often
>it maybe projected onto me.