For those who want more info on the Norwegian event, read this (poorly written) answer to the Wiesenthal Centre. Basicly the people who turned up with Israeli flags were right-wing nutters who were later expelled from the main Jewish organization in Norway for their provokation and cooperation with another right-wing hate-mongering, racist organization.

BatAttaK

Tacoma, WA

OLD SKOOL

NOV 16, 2004 10:04 PM

lostarchitect said:

s5 said:

at least we got a dancing banana out of the deal.

...and a subserviant chicken.

And a subservient bartender. Have her "do the Jedi" or "kiss the girl". Now that's why the internet was created.

mathilde74

France

August 2003

NOV 17, 2004 01:14 AM

that would make a Gaullist blush

total anti-french article

dem_z

United Kingdom

June 2004

NOV 17, 2004 05:19 AM

remusisdying said:

demetrius_z said:
Also, from that same article:

The Fifth Republic has been one of Arafat's main sources of international support, choosing to launch its moral recriminations against Israel and America rather than Palestinian violence.

Yet the French have a huge problem not just with anti-semitism, but with racism of every type. They hate the Jews, but they hate the Muslims and Arabs and etc etc etc too.

in my experience, broad judgements against entire countries are nothing but accurate. 100% even.

I worded my post poorly. France (like many other countries) has a problem with racism; there are many racists in France and those racists hate Jews, and Muslims, and Arabs, and etc etc etc.

I hope that this is clearer.

Hussein

I'm lost

March 2004

NOV 17, 2004 06:35 AM

s5 said:

it's upsetting to think that human civilization's most advanced technology for communication and understanding has also succeeded at distancing us from reality.

at least we got a dancing banana out of the deal.

Simon Schama:

For most of us purblind writers spend our days in Worldly America and think that Godly America is some sort of quaint anachronism, doomed to atrophy and disappear as the hypermodernity of the cyber age overtakes it, in whatever fastness of Kentucky or Montana it might still circle its wagons. The shock for the Worldlies is to discover that Godly America is its modernity; that so far from it withering before the advance of the blog and the zipdrive, it is actually empowered by them. The tenacity with which Godly America insists the theory of evolution is just that - a theory - with no more validity than Creationism, or that Iraqis did, in fact, bring down the twin towers, is not in any way challenged by the digital pathways of the information age. In fact, such articles of faith are expedited and reinforced by them. Holy bloggers bloviate, Pentecostalists ornament their website with a nimbus of trembling electronic radiance and, for all I know, you can download Pastor John Ashcroft singing the Praises of the Lord right to your Godpod.

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