Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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Haroon Siddiqui is perhaps one of the most controversial opinion writers in the Toronto Star. Of course, his keyboard has seen quite a bit of action in the wake of 9/11. Here, he writes this article as a bit of a summary of all his "fan mail" that he has received. A link to all his articles is here.
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"Why in hell can't trash like you go back to the country you came from?"
Oy. Please tell me this kind of prejudiced reaction does NOT reflect the general view of the American populace... I'm perturbed by Siddiqui's 50-50 balancing act.
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quote:Oy. Please tell me this kind of prejudiced reaction does NOT reflect the general view of the American populace... I'm perturbed by Siddiqui's 50-50 balancing act.
Toronto Star does not equal American, get a map.
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Did it occur to you the Star might have American readers?
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Is this one of those strange maps that puts America in the middle?
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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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quote:Originally posted by E. Cartman: "Why in hell can't trash like you go back to the country you came from?"
Oy. Please tell me this kind of prejudiced reaction does NOT reflect the general view of the American populace... I'm perturbed by Siddiqui's 50-50 balancing act.
It COULD be the Canadian populace, you know. In which case we have to be VERY careful.....
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"Is this one of those strange maps that puts America in the middle?"
Well, yes, North America was more-or-less centered in the map. But, seeing as it was a map of North America, I'm not particularly surprised.
What is up w/ those world maps that center on 90°W or so, anyway? Who would want a map that splits the planet's largest landmass into two separate parts at opposite ends of the page?
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Especially since it makes those evil pinko commie bastards a western nation. And it makes us an eastern country, although we do have an evil socialist government, so...
I think it's just someone taking "American-centric" to ridiculous extremems. I'm waiting for a proposal to move all the time zones so that Washington is the middle one.
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And take it away from the centrally located Greenwich?
No, and double no!
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Cory Doctorow has a novel coming out which is, apparently, among other things, about doing interesting things with time zones.
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I think there's a Greenwich up in Massachusetts or somewhere around there, so that may not be a problem, actually.
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