Author: James Robertson
Date: 16:55:30 02/05/00
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On February 05, 2000 at 18:50:04, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On February 05, 2000 at 15:24:11, James Robertson wrote: > >>Please complain. >I am not >the gestapo > > >would you please stop using these kind of words. >this is a computer-chess-newsgroup. >as a german i feel hurt when other people misuse >these historical stuff for no reasons. you could have used >other words to express your idea. > >thanks. Actually, comparing an evil CCC moderator with the gestapo seems grossly unfair to the evil CCC moderator. :) I do not know what gestapo means in German, but in English it is synonymous with a certain group of people, not at all representative of Germans in general. If you made a comment about the evils of slave-owning people in early US history, I would not be offended at all. That group of people is long gone and I feel no relation to them whatsoever. I am surprised you do not feel the same way about the gestapo. I am sorry if you are offended, and I will try not to offend you in such a way again. This is sort of related, and I think this is a good time to bring it up. On _many_ occasions you (and others too) have directly insulted my country, the USA. You have mentioned how violent you think it is, how coca-cola helped bring that on, etc. etc. etc. If everyone here stopped making snyde remarks about foreign countries, we would all be less offended, less touchy, and happier. You cannot remove the cultural/linguistic misunderstanding (as in the case of my post), so we should deal with that as quietly and quickly as possible. James > > > >>or some vindictive person, planning to get >>revenge on anybody who disagrees with me > >>James
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