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To: tsigprofit who wrote (2249)	6/19/2003 4:32:02 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20773

Not disagreeing with those in and of themselves, no. But when one sets standards for the US that are substantially different than standards set for others with an intent to denigrate the US, yes. For just one little example, those history books which excoriate white Americans for holding slaves without any recognition that slaveholding had been a world-wide phenomenon for thousands of years, that many, if not most, slaves shipped to America were in fact not captured by whites but by Arabs or other blacks and sold to ship owners, not all of whom were American but some of whom were Dutch, French, Spanish, and other nationalities. But some of these liberals would teach our children that Americans were all in the wrong and by exclusion teach that Americans were the only ones on the wrong. I consider that anti-American. I see that basic mindset in a lot of writing, mostly but not all liberal, today. A clear double standard, that a thing done by Americans is vehemently attacked while much more serious things done by others are totally ignored or even excused. I have even read polemics excusing contempory slavery in the Sudan as merely a cultural attribute and any criticism of it as culturally insensitive. Excuse me? No nation, no peoples, are perfect. There are always faults to find. What I find inexcusible is when Americans apply a double standard which looks not at the acts involved but at the nationalities involved and works on the assumption that if Americans do something it is terrible but that if others do the same or far worse it is understandable and excusable. When the teachers of our young children focus almost entirely on the negative things about America and almost completely disregard the positive things about America, presenting an intentionally unbalanced and biased picture of our country, I consider that anti-American. I have, for example, heard a high school history teacher actually say to a class that the US judicial system is the most biased and unjust judicial system in the world. Which is totally asinine, but also sadly not atypical. And, as one more example, I consider any American who claims that the US deserved 9/11 to be openly anti-American.