Re: "He's a step and a half slow coming into the net. He's just not the same player, I lost the match. He didn't win the match tonight. He's not playing that great. I'll be surprised if he wins his next match, to be honest with you."

On Mar 26, 5:48 pm, blanders0...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 26, 4:09 pm, josephmrami...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Mar 26, 4:48 pm, blanders0...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I don't think so.  When comparing to a culture where half the
population is denied rights by virtue of gender, that is certainly a
recipe for corruption. Why the whole world doesn't just say so is
beyond me.

The United States was unquestionably guilty of denying human rights to
its own people on a vast scale, based on gender and race, deep into
the 20th century.

Vast in comparison to what?  I do not deny that human rights were
denied to certain people well into the 20th Century.

Most of our citizens. When did women obtain the right to vote? When
did women obtain a reasonable degree of economic and workplace
equality? You always complain about gender discrimination in the
Muslim world, but you must be strangely unaware of it in our own
history if you think that only "certain people" had to pay a price in
the past.

 There has been
intolerance and injustice, much of which has been rectified.  That is
to our credit.  Fucking Islamic freaks are still living in the 14th
Century, forget the 20th.

Cultures don't evolve at the same pace, or experience the same
upheavals or fix the same problems at exactly the same time. Your view
is simplistic and ahistorical. It amounts to, "Well, I think we've
finally gotten our own issues under control, so now I'm free to tell
the rest of you guys that you are scum." Good for you for choosing a
nice time and place of birth.

1. Do you regard the culture of the United States from the time of its
founding up until, say, 1964 or so, as deeply corrupt and evil?

No, otherwise the deeply corrupt and evil aspects would have prevailed
and flourished.

How do you know the parts of other cultures to which you object
ultimately will "prevail"?


2. Does it disgust you that the United States in the 19th and 20th
centuries became an economic, military, and diplomatic power despite
the fundamental corruption and evil of its culture?

No, but you are starting to disgust me.

Don't you recognize your own hyperbolic opinions when they are applied
a little closer to home? You can dish out abuse, but you are
hypersensitive to it yourself. Typical for a jingoist.


3. Do you advocate that children all over the world, including those
here in the U.S., be taught in school that the culture of the United
States for most of its history was deeply corrupt and evil?

Joe Ramirez

Go away please.  You are beneath contempt.

Typically nasty and wrong. Your problem, Blanders, is that you really
don't think much -- you *feel*. You don't even recognize rhetorical
questions. Your sweeping condemnations of the majority culture in
Muslim countries could justifiably have been launched at many
(probably most) nations -- including the United States -- at some
point in their histories. Put a Blanders type in Britain in the
mid-19th century, and he would have denounced the United States as an
all-time colossus of evil. Fortunately, the people who actually write
the history books have more perspective than you do, and are able to
distinguish between serious problems that need to be solved, or gaps
in development that have yet to be overcome, and the type of
fundamental cultural "evil" on which you are so erroneously fixated.

Joe Ramirez

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