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Re: Why Roth Won't Get a Prize
by Einhard

Have you been arrested for voicing your opposition to the current administration yet Mr. Clean? Have the offices of The Nation been closed and its editor arrested for publishing such an article? Didn't think so. Have you the opportunity to vote in free elections this Novemeber? Thought so. So spare me your armchair BS about a facist America.

There's another poster I read today, Kali I think his name was, who mentioned he was a Holocaust survivor. Maybe you should go and regale him with your experiences in modern America and see what kind of shrift you'd get.

As for doing my homework. Please. You claim America is a facist society, accuse me of ignorance when I call you on it, and then admit that maybe America isn't fully facist afterall. Perhaps you should do your homework. First look up the word hyperbole, and then maybe read 1984, followed by an account of Europe in the 30s and 40s. Perhaps then you won't be so blase about undermining the true horrors of facism by flinging the term about in such an indiscriminate fashion.

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