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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| bacasper wrote: |
There, I fixed it.
Picky, picky.  |
Well, enough crap gets tossed at the US that we can at least be sensitive to undeserved rants.
Ok, on to the OP:
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| Race, gender and class can be very seductive. It is the class one serves that matters. |
I strongly agree. I think we need a 'left' that talks about inequality. Inequality matters and is important. But most left-talk is about race, sexuality and such. That's a distraction. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:59 pm Post subject: |
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| If you're going to say America is the land of anything as a point of unique reference, it is the land of free speech. |
But neither scholars nor journalists have talked about America that way for decades, Mises.
L.A. Times op-ed |
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bacasper
Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Sergio Stefanuto wrote: |
| bacasper wrote: |
Mises: The fact is that the US was once the land of slavery. Where is the controversy in pointing that out? |
The use of a definite article is either innocently mistaken, but probably indicative of a raving Bolshevik. |
Overattention to minute detail is either being hypercritical or symptomatic of a Pervasive Developmental Disorder or Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. |
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