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Old 03-25-2007, 10:16 AM   #159
Spexxvet
Makes some feel uncomfortable
 
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Originally Posted by wolf View Post
You might recall ... the last two times people got really proud over being German, there were some problems. We're not permitted to say things like that.

Pride of ancestry is another one of those "really only allowable to peoples of a medium tan shade or darker", at least here in America. Black Pride, Latino Pride, Assorted Flavors of Asian Pride, all laudable ... not so for any European culture, unless of course, you're Irish on March 17th ... or you're not but you just really want to get drunk.
I think you are confusing "pride" with "violence" and "repression". Nobody had issues with German pride, it was the violence and repression that caused problems. If the KKK didn't lynch black people, they wouldn't be despised. Same for repubicans.
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