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Date Posted: 09:20:22 09/01/00 Fri
Author: devlin
Subject: Perfectly good topic, SMH!
In reply to: Scully'sMyHero 's message, "This is *really* off topic, but..." on 07:07:02 09/01/00 Fri

I am interested in your views on this one. We've decided that Yankee, when it is used, is usually a bit disparaging. I think people who watch 'Gone With the Wind' don't hate Scarlett O'Hara for being a slave owner. That's how things were and it *was* (unfortunately) part of developmental history of the country. I suppose I was focussing on the skinheads or whoever, like you describe, to make my point. It's hi-jacking something which could seem innocuous and part of social history, and using it to whip up hatred. At the worst end of this, in Britain there are extreme right wing groups who fly Nazi flags in the name of Nationalism!

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