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To: RMDupree
I'm sorry that you were personally offended by the fact that the Cuban flag was waved, or that you were blamed for being a gringo (although I think it was more because you are a blatant bigot based on your statements).

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Oh, am I? Well, if being for reduced immigration and not wanting the part of the country I live in to turn into another banana republic makes me a "bigot," then so be it. I'm certainly no more of a "bigot" than, say, a National Review editor who calls for all Americans of Chinese descent to be placed into internment camps, under the ridiculous pretense that every single one of them might be commie fifth columnists, or vile neo-cons like William Kristol who believe all Arabs (both Muslim and non-Muslim alike) are evil and should be nuked off the face off the earth. Similar views are shared by many people here at Free Republic. So tell me, who's the real bigot here, hmm? It's ironic seeing certain Republicans playing the race card just like any other typical Democrat when it suits them.

And I most certainly did NOT make my feelings on the Cuban immigration issue known to them, they harassed me first. Besides, doing so is not a safe thing to do here where I live.

21 posted on 03/23/2002 8:26:15 PM PST by Rick_Hunter
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To: Rick_Hunter
Nice straw man argument Rick, but I didn't see you make any statements about being for reduced immigration or any such thing.

What I read was a blanket statement made about a select group of people based on personal dislike. There was nothing you stated that mentioned that you disagreed with a few Cubans about Elian until now. You basically grouped them all as mental defects sent over on rafts to leach off of the government teat while they wave Cuban flags and harrass gringos. What nerve!

As for your comparisons based on political pundits who want internment camps for the Chinese and to nuke the Arabs, there is none. We are not at war with Cuba nor are there Cubans flying airplanes into buildings on US soil for misguided religious purpose. Again, nice try.

Please re-read the first post you wrote that I responded to, and see if some of that language doesn't sound a bit like those Kristols and National Review editors you denounce.

23 posted on 03/24/2002 7:38:36 AM PST by RMDupree
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