Now that's just cheeky...

[DanaC]

So I'm a racist now? lol. Because I am of the left I am a racist unenlightened bastard?

I assure you my parentage was never in question. And I am morally bankrupt. But only in your moral currency which is valueless to me anyway:P

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by DanaC

So I'm a racist now? lol. Because I am of the left I am a racist unenlightened bastard?

I assure you my parentage was never in question. And I am morally bankrupt. But only in your moral currency which is valueless to me anyway:P

That's because you're not thinking in an enlightened way yet. Otherwise you wouldn't still be in the Socialist Party, and at your age, too. Moral currency is, I'm afraid, a universal. Remember that I was never in life a socialist, not at twenty, and not now -- and what the aphorism says.

The history of the Left in power is one of man's inhumanity to man, and we can tot up the millions of mighty questionable deaths that happened. Nothing "progressive" there, I assure you. Where, then, is the not-bastardliness?

The one thing I dislike about the Brits in general, and it is too bad, is their easy bigotry; it's more accepted there than here. They have no idea that showing it would raise my American hackles.

We Americans feel embarrassed to discover ourselves harboring prejudices about out-groups. We've done it before -- Catholics, Irish, blacks, Jews -- and we find at the end of the day there's no benefit in it. This enlightenment has not yet dawned on most of the British population -- and the yobbos who actually give physical expression to such racist impulses aren't being left in the dungeons of society's scorn for doing it.