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To: Machaon who wrote (3769)	4/14/1999 11:29:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17770

Why does my insults against Milosevic bother you? Why? For the simple reason that whether or not you like what he is doing (and I happen not to) he is a human being entitled to the dignity deserved by all human beings, no matter how depraved their actions may be. You are the kind of person who would have called the Germans "huns," the Japanese "japs," "yellow squint eyes," etc. Who would use all sorts of ethnic and racial put-downs -- kikes, niggers, polaks, all would slip right off your tongue without your even considering anything wrong in such language. If you have any intelligence remaining (assuming you had some at birth), use a bit of it to read George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language." Read it five times. Then maybe you will understand why even those of us who detest what the Serbians are doing in Kosovo do not feel it necessary -- or appropriate -- to dehumanize them. Not something, though, which I expect you to understand. But since you asked, I answered.