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• Greg. Tingey commented on It's people!
  Charlie - OK: Except to note that DGPOK doesn't seem to have answered my points. ad hominem IS the phrase isn't it?? However, Dirk Bruere has hit it exactly in 129. The Brit Empire NOW would be vile. By the standards of the times, it was the least-worst, if not the best. Like I said it's COMPLICATED. In fact I wonder if this is morphing into the next thread, and becoming a "wicked" problem? Meanwhile - I've got to go and dance outside a pub later (the hardship!) so I'm off shortly, anyway....
• John Meaney commented on It's people!
  You've given me my next pseudonynm, thank you! From now on I'll be Seán O Maonaigh......
• Greg. Tingey commented on It's people!
  Back from dancing and drinking .. hic. I wonder. There has been peripheral discussion of the UK's Civil War(s). There is this song, admiitedly from the royalist side, but it underscores the tensions of the time, and some of which persist to this day. Here we go: The Lawyer's farewell to Charing Cross Undone! undone! the lawyers cry, They ramble up and down; We know not the way to WESTMINSTER Now CHARING-CROSS is down. (refrain) Now fare thee well, old Charing-Cross, Then fare thee well, old stump; It was a thing set up by a King, And so pull'd down...
• Greg. Tingey commented on It's people!
  @ 161 Thanks for that. I was wondering last night about another version: We've been talking about the "evils" of past empires, real or imaginary. What about real present evils from present empires? Of which there are two. The obvious one is the US, where the military are use to back-up a very corrupt commercial empire Though even there it is getting better in some places - the fruit-growing combines no longer control the Central American states. Blackwater (or whatever they are called this week) etc. Then there's China. A real colonial empire - Tibet And a growing commercial one,...
• spudtater commented on It's people!
  > Racism isn't all that massive in Australia. You must be kidding. The stolen generation? One Nation? The casually-used "Abo", "Chink" and "Wog"? Australia has an enormous problem with racism, but white Australians refuse to even see it....