New Orleans disaster

[anto eile]

natural hurricane barriers like islands and swamps were filled in/"developed" leaving the city at the mercy of this disaster. incopetence and a lack of foresight from the knobends runnig their city/country exacerbated this problem

and people complain about irish weather?it ****es me off people complaingnin about irish weather.we get great weather.irish people dont relaise how lucky we are

[Éanna]

Eanna,
It just gets worse.
"They" are stupid, "They" are lazy, "They" are only here for our women, "They" are thiefs, "They" are only good for manual work, "They" are scumbags, "They" should stay in the home minding the kids, etc,etc. Sure "it's hilarious really" lets all laugh at the idiots.
Aren't generalisations great. You just put them in a catagory and let the prejudices begin. Now where have we heard this type of thinking before? Does Germany in the 30's jog anyones memories.
I tell you what this remonds me of Eanna, being chased around Hackney early 90's by a BNP **** with a crowbar shouting "them Irish, they are just drunk, ****** loving paddies".

Like I said already, when you're speaking in such general terms, you have to generalise. The only other possibility is for me to fly to New Orleans and meet every single individual, return here and post an individual comment on each one of them. Now I'm not trying to be facetious or anything, but thats the reality. I'm speaking in general terms, and it is a fact that members of different cultures do have certain things in common with each other.

but ya generalisations do have a basis though, but you cant pick an individual, every individual should be treated as an individual and not a sum of the generalisation until he/she shows signs/conforms to the generalisation eanna. keep this in mind kid

Absolutely, and as I've said, I treat every individual as an individual. Like I said above about american people, I treat them the same as anyone else I meet, because they are individuals. Its the same as this- I detest the policies of Fianna Fáil, but I know plenty of decent people in FF. But if you asked me about FF, I'd say I can't stand them.

Why should I? . Weather you like it or not, YOU ARE been racist against Americans!

I'm not. As has been pointed out to you already, Americans are not a race. You lost this argument a long time ago- just give it up.

If you think that's offensive, you obviously haven't read his posts on topics to do with Israel yet. They're even more offensive.

Why? For stating fact? I'm not gonna get into the Israel debate all over again, but just because I have an opinion which differs from the "acceptable" -i.e. US/Israeli propaganda - version of matters, I'm being offensive. For offensive, see countries with a war criminal as head of state, starting with "Sharon, A."

[Éanna]

Personally I can't really understand what all the fuss is about, Éanna's got "anti-american" right there in his profile, and if people don't like his comments there's nothing stopping them adding him to their Ignore List. I'd do it myself but administrators have to read everything spewed out on the boards.

never made any attempt to hide my dislike of the USA, so I don't see what the big fuss is about.

The thing that makes me laugh the most are the attempts to defend his comments. It was obviously a wee bit of an outburst, something not uncommon with Éanna. It's obvious he didn't mean them in the way they were - rightly, imho - percieved.

True. I did try to clarify what I'd said to some extent, but the fact that so many people just jumped on the bandwagon of calling it racism etc etc, instead of actually discussing the matter said a lot about the ability of them to argue the point As I've said on more than one occasion, if they were perceived as me gloating, or enjoying the misery of innocents.....well that was never what I intended.

If he's just admitted that ages ago, the thread could probably have proceeded normally. But no, we have to defend the infensible. Americans are all stupid, and deserve what they get. But they don't, but they do.

Maybe if I'd worded what I originally posted a bit better, it wouldn't have happened. For that much, I do apologise.