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Old 02-07-2010, 02:42 AM
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I was gonna stay out of this, but...come on...

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Originally Posted by Alcatrazz View Post
The two do not even compare in the least.
It's a metaphor. You do know what a metaphor is, right? Of course MPM knows that they're not comparable.

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Originally Posted by Swordfish941 View Post
MPM2008, I think you owe Alcatrazz an apology.
Maybe it's a little insensitive, but if he had said, "Soviet laborers in the Gulag", would you have said anything? Or would that be disrespectful to the millions of people who died in the Gulags*? And would you have demanded an apology on their behalf?



*My grandfather was born in Ukraine and lost most of his immediate family to the Soviet famines of the 1920s.