Tuesday, September 7th, 2004
Americans Vs. Canadians
I made a couple of comments on what appeared to be an anti-American post today, and the wrath of blogdom came down on me. Here's what I said:
Feeling a little racial?
The problem here is that they don't know where places are, not that they pretended to, as you attest-- unless you're reporting your stories inaccurately.
I think it's a good idea to can anti-Americanism, and call it what it is: RACISM.
Apparently I misunderstood. As I tried to explain to my torturers, I'm wary of Canadians who are quick to snobbery against their 'dumb' big brother south of the border.
You've probably heard it, "They're arrogant, they're loud, they're American. Yuck." It rubs me the wrong way when we look down on other people.
Apparently I misread-- this gentle person was simply referring to four dumb Americans she came across, not the whole country. I'm sorry for stirring things up and misunderstanding. Truly.
Meanwhile, Mark Steyn makes an interesting comment on the snobbery of Bush hatred.
"Bush-despising" is no doubt very comforting to McCrum's beleaguered literati but in the end it's little more than snobbery - fine for cocktail condescension but utterly inadequate for an election campaign. You can't beat something with nothing, and Kerry is about as spectacular a nothing as you could devise - a thin-skinned whiny vanity candidate who persists in deluding himself that Bush's advantage is all down to "smears" and "lies" and "mean" "attacks". It's not.
Interesting course of events, don't you think?
~Jason
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