The intellectual origins of America-Bashing

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> >
> > Defiance? Shall we talk of defiance?
> >
> > It was not a statue of Marx or Lenin
> >   or some French critical "text" impaled on the top
> >   of the Eiffel or Ivory tower that the Chinese students
> >   in Tiananmen Square raised as a symbol of their
> >   resistance, their hope, their love for Democracy,
> 
> The Chinese longing for democracy forgot that Lady Liberty was for the white
> Americans only, not for the Blacks. And that the Western governments weren't
> interested in that protest at all, as long as the good business with Chinese
> government was going on.

Oh come on, Otto. The Chinese forgot? Give them some credit. I give them
a lot. No, Otto, you simply don't know what you are talking about here.
The students didn't forget. Others have forgotten. The Students knew
exactly what lady liberty represents and that's why they built her and
that's why they carried her in Tiananmen. 



> 
> >  it was the gift of the
> >  French to the poor, low, tired, fragments of nations
> >  tossed upon these American shores, the Statue of Liberty.
> >
> 
>  In 1886 the USA hardly were a "poor, low, tired" fragment of a nation.

Oh, Otto, it's written on the statue. Ever seen it. Everyone should see
her just once. See the faces of the people, hear and listen to the
stories. I guess some people have to be soooooo cynical. 



> 
> >   In Prague, 1989, it was not Marx but Jefferson that the
> >   students read in the streets.
> >
> 
> Wasn't Jefferson a slave-owner too? Something the Czechs had forgotten.

Why must you put your ignorance on the Chinese and Czechs?