Fine and dandy but pointless bashing is pointless. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dkg@fifthhorseman.net">dkg@fifthhorseman.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 02/28/2011 01:32 PM, Matt Joyce wrote:<br>
> Beats the german eagle though. =P<br>
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</div>It's not about whose imperialist mascot beats whose imperialist mascot.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Can we stop the america bashing plz.<br>
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</div>It's not america-bashing to point out that symbols already associated<br>
with imperialism are likely to to be ill-received as symbols of freedom.<br>
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This is an international list, and for the best dreams of freedombox to<br>
succeed, it needs to be an international project. This means that any<br>
country is liable to come up for criticism, and we need to take it<br>
seriously (and not defensively).<br>
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I assume you don't consider the recent "Tahrir Square" thread to be<br>
unacceptable "egypt-bashing" on this list. People need to be able to<br>
discuss the political ramifications of the work, even if it happens to<br>
make some country's government look bad occasionally.<br>
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--dkg<br>
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