>>> delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU 06/27/00 10:08AM >>>
>Now Koreans are dogs? The repellent DeLong is not only loopy with
>his history but racist besides.
>Tim Shorrock
>
>Brad DeLong writes:
>Think of two dogs snarling at each other. Truman holds tight to the
>leash on his dog. Stalin puts steel caps on his, and lets the leash
>slip...
No. Koreans aren't the dogs. Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee are the dogs.
Do you need an English class to learn how to understand metaphor?
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CB: Well, Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee were Koreans.
But , actually this is a small advance for Brad D. since he places Truman and Stalin in roughly the same category. Soon he may even realize that the correct metaphor is that he is in a nation of dogs who are attacking the people in Korea.
CB