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Keffiyeh? I hardly know her!

 
  

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Regrettable Juvenilia
14:16 / 30.05.08
I doubt the same people objecting to wearing the keffiyeh are the ones who object to wearing the Union Jack. The Union Jack is a symbol of a nation state that has never done anything bad, ever!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:23 / 30.05.08
My point is, you probably already know that, AAR, but the thing to realise is that hardcore neocolonialists even go so far as to have a derogatory phrase for when pinko lefties try to apply the same standards to Western democracies as are applied to, say, Hamas: moral equivalence.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
14:44 / 30.05.08
Yeah, I've heard that one thrown down as a sort of final gambit quite a few times, not here but in a lot of other places. If I'm thinking of the same thing, it's the one where (for example) even though the coalition forces have been caught torturing people, and have as part of their public battle-plan attacked civilians with bombers, in Iraq, you're supposed to ignore that because of the values they had in mind when they were doing it, which make them totally different to 'the insurgents', right?
 
  

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