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Both interesting and grossly unfair [message #14312]

Tue, 09 September 2003 22:02

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I get taken to task for USA bashing when I make a comment about the intrusive nature of medical exams, and yet the exams are intrusive.

It is a huge jump from commenting on an examination regime (which seems to fuel almost all the teenage stories on Nifty) whcih intrudes into the lives of kids who have been made too shy to even allow their parents to see them naked and the bashing of a country.

I have never yet bashed the USA as a nation. I get heartily displeased by being accused of it, and I have wracked my brains for examples of bashing the USA. I can find none.

It is a generlisation to allegedly basjh a nation for certain small habits and practices. I disagree fundamentally with many things in almost all nations. These include:

circumcision for purely consmetic and non medcial grounds
racial segregation and hatred
postive discrimination for minorities
negative discrimination against minorities
religious fervour, especially in the persecution of those of a different religion
The support of terrorist organisations
incompetent education systems
political correctness
political curruption and rigged elections
totalitarianism
undue "social welfare" intervention in people's lives
attempts to control what goes on between partners who cnsent in the privacy of their own homes
Chauvinism (Chauvin's version, not Germain Greer's)
Healthcare only for the wealthy or the insured

There is much more that I disagree with.

Many of these can be found in the USA, many in the UK, fewer in mainland European nations. And if I state that any of these are, in my view, wrong, I am not bashing the nation, but am bashing the item that is wrong in all nations that have such aspects in them.

I admit to having had a sense of humour failure over this accusation> Sad

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

		Both interesting and grossly unfair By: timmy on Tue, 09 September 2003 22:02
		Re: Both interesting and grossly unfair By: robert bryce on Wed, 10 September 2003 03:32
		Excessive pride is one of those interesting issues By: timmy on Wed, 10 September 2003 07:08
		Re: Excessive pride is one of those interesting issues By: robert bryce on Wed, 10 September 2003 17:19
		Pride vs Excessive pride By: timmy on Thu, 11 September 2003 06:58
		Re: Excessive pride is one of those interesting issues By: marc on Wed, 10 September 2003 19:39
		Re: Excessive pride is one of those interesting issues By: robert bryce on Wed, 10 September 2003 20:06
		Hello Rob...... By: marc on Wed, 10 September 2003 20:47
		Re: Hello Rob...... By: robert bryce on Thu, 11 September 2003 04:42
		Re: Hello Rob...... By: marc on Thu, 11 September 2003 09:16
		Posts like this are not on By: timmy on Thu, 11 September 2003 07:02
		Re: Excessive pride is one of those interesting issues By: david in hong kong on Thu, 11 September 2003 05:58
		Re: Both interesting and grossly unfair By: misplaced on Wed, 10 September 2003 04:11
		YOU GO GIRL By: brian! on Wed, 10 September 2003 04:54
		Re: YOU GO GIRL By: misplaced on Wed, 10 September 2003 05:28
		girl misplaced: please accept. By: brian! on Wed, 10 September 2003 13:09
		none needed! By: misplaced on Wed, 10 September 2003 18:18
		I agree with Timmy in most of these things By: Steve on Wed, 10 September 2003 06:40
		Some of you will disagree but ... By: kevin on Wed, 10 September 2003 20:01
		Re: Some of you will disagree but ... By: robert bryce on Wed, 10 September 2003 20:18
		But why????? By: marc on Wed, 10 September 2003 20:53
		Rob ... By: kevin on Wed, 10 September 2003 20:57
		Re: Rob ... By: robert bryce on Wed, 10 September 2003 21:27
		I do not know anout the 'doctor' thing at all ..... By: kevin on Wed, 10 September 2003 21:32
		Water..... Oh my...... By: marc on Wed, 10 September 2003 22:13
		It's OK Rob ...... glad we cleared it up By: kevin on Thu, 11 September 2003 00:15
		Ummm .... By: james fenwick on Fri, 12 September 2003 03:34
		No dear, you're not missing a thing...... By: marc on Fri, 12 September 2003 08:46
		I think I was the confused one ...... By: kevin on Fri, 12 September 2003 14:06
		Re: I think I was the confused one ...... By: timmy on Fri, 12 September 2003 14:13
		I willl continue By: kevin on Fri, 12 September 2003 15:41
		standing ovation! By: misplaced on Fri, 12 September 2003 15:48

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