I picked up something else in his post, which is why I branded him a troll and pinged everyone. The context of the post was that the poster chose to make his point in reply to a post on Marxism. I took this as implying a left-wing argument to the effect that to recognize Marxism is de facto racist/xenophobic (i.e. the point underlying the poster's sarcasm was, "FreeRepublic is a bunch of rednecks"); hence my complaint in my previous post that I was being race-baited.
Incidentally there are many holes in the analogy the poster suggested, some of which have been pointed out already--e.g., your observation that German immigrants were here legally, previous posts noting that German immigrants did assimilate into American culture--as well as the fact mentioned in one of the articles I posted that the German community itself eventually ostracized the Marxist group being discussed; not to mention the fundamental fact that the issue was Marxism, not that the Marxists in question were German; among other things. I would have entertained a serious discussion of this if the poster had displayed some manners in their post, but their sarcastic tone did not give me the impression they were interested in a serious discussion, so I was not about to dignify it with a serious reply.
As for dropping the subject, it's dropped. I do indeed have bigger trolls to hunt.
Understood.
I sense something not quite right about edge myself.
We will see if he outs himself or not.
I saw both points of view by taking it in different contexts. Initially I didn't read your post just NnB's reply to Edge's #22. After I read your post I felt slightly different. But by then you and NnB were at each other. If Edge is a troll he didn't have the orbs to come out and say what he meant. But our country has always had suspicion of immigrant groups even when legal. Illegals in mass are a product of more recent history, late 70's to present and cause a justifiably heightened suspicion.
Anyway I like you both and say, let's go look for big old bold trolls.