The intellectual origins of America-Bashing

[Otto]

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Subject: Re: The intellectual origins of America-Bashing
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> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > An empty symbol. Worthless symbolism. In 1886 Lady Liberty stood for a
> > racist country denying equal rights to large proportions of it's
citizens
> > and ruthless exploitation. That's a fact and this fact has been
something
> > the Students did not think about. Did the Americans help them? No, the
> > Students were run over by the tanks. I haven't forgotten the pictures
that
> > went around the world and nobody really cared.
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> Otto, the Students didn't think the symbol an empty one. That's your
> opinion.

Well, it didn't help them, didn't brought the US-Gov to intervene. It's been
an empty symbol.

> You disagree with what the students did.  They chose Lady Liberty as
> their symbol. You claim  that the students chose the Statue of Liberty
> because of  amnesia and ignorance.

The Students were in error about it. They have all my sympathy but they've
been in error.

> You claim that the students in Prague
> read Jefferson in the streets because they too suffered from amnesia and
> ignorance. I disagree.

dito