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[ddeubel]

[cosmo]

Did the VT shootings stop Koreans from playing shooting games?

[stevemcgarrett]

ddeubel:

I realize that density is your calling card, but what of the countless millions of non-Americans who clamor to buy these videos, both legally and illegally, around the globe?

Are they infatuated too?

Really, if you're going to engage in American bashing, at least think before you jerk your knee.

[ddeubel]

[stevemcgarrett]

ddeubel:

Are you willfully obtuse or does it just come naturally?

You post an article about America's supposed obsession with violent films, inferring that we are somehow more prone to violence as a society because of it while ignoring the GLARING fact that millions of people around the world watch these same films. Nobody is pointing a gun at their heads to do so. Got it now or do I need to resort to comic strips?

And if you're not American, what business have you to judge us when you're brethren are also doing it?

[ddeubel]

McGarette,

I repeat, I posted something and you ran with it, filling in the blanks. That isn't good intellectual discipline or rigour. It is your MO, just label label label.......don't offer any substance. Go back to your dog house if you aren't going to debate the facts but rather just label someone who posted some info.

DD

PS. Again, the article wasn't about the millions who watch American films but rather the American movie going audience (which represents 90% of Hollywood's revenue -- they actually lose money on overseas production and distribution!).

[Gopher]

[ddeubel]

Gopher,

No backpeddling or disclaimer. You too are falling into the same MO. Cry wolf , cry "...ism" and don't debate or converse upon the issues.

If you think that the moment someone posts something with "American" in it, they are anti-american, you got a screw loose.

I had no point to make other than the fact that I thought the author's sensational premise was totally wrong. An event like VT isn't going to change proximate behaviours, such as watching violent videos.

You're making this into some sort of anti-Americanism only shows your own true colours. McGaretteism....ooops, McCarthyism. A kind of shout down, basing your arguement on authority and not the facts or any longly cherished notions of truth, reference, example or proof. Horrific and not befitting anyone who would pretend to be an "academic".

You can now pull open your 101 reader and reading list of academia. It is a joke and your days are over , quoting "so called" scholars when at the same time betraying your own lack of 'breadth " and intellectual vigour. I again use my metaphor of the kid one page ahead in the third grade reader.....

I can only say on this issue, "Shut up or Sing". I'm sure you know the reference. Or to make it clearer, "I will not shut up".......same issue, same thing. I will say what I want, don't cling to some power. My voice is my own and so too my learning. Your own learning, vacuous.

So watch whatever film you want, piss off wherever you want......that isn't the issue.

DD

[Barking Mad Lord Snapcase]

When free speech is questioned, people like me tend to just turn the page, slip in the Kill Bill DVD and order a Pepperoni pizza. The West earns its money. Life goes on.

[ddeubel]

McGarette wrote,

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