> > If nuance is what's important to you, you might notice that in the
>> current anti-immigrant climate, terms such as "a US citizens
>> movement" don't sound so encouraging to some of us the majority of
>> the country. Some of us are so easily cast out as "them," you see,
>> on the basis of lack of citizenship.
>>
>> Yoshie
>
>Oh, come off it. Besides, I don't think I used "US citizens movement." I
>believe I said simply "citizens movement" which, since we live in the US,
>would be, essentially, framed by this boundary.
See <http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/current/0350.html>
>If I said "US citizens,"
>then that was a rhetorical slip, and not meant to be xenophobic.
>
>DP
I don't charge you with xenophobia. What we are talking about here is indeed a matter of nuances and rhetorical slips. Be careful with your rhetoric. If you don't think that armed struggles against the Chinese state by all peoples are necessary, it is inadvisable to call it "fascist."
Yoshie