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Old 02-07-2010, 03:33 AM
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I find it reprehensible to demean the history of any people for such a petty reason like complaining about one's job.
Don't you think "demeaning" is too strong a word?

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And MT2008, how would you have reacted if someone made such a reference to Stalin's atrocities? Would you be angry?
Honestly, no. The people I get angry at are the leftist anti-Americans and Che Guevara-T-shirt-wearing morons who seem to be incapable of recognizing atrocities that weren't committed by Nazis, or Americans, or white Westerners in general.

As long as someone isn't an apologist for communist mass-murder, I am not particularly offended. After all, a metaphor comparing one's boss to Stalin, or one's job to the Gulag, is still a metaphor which implicitly recognizes that Stalin was a monster and that the Gulags were horrible. And, likewise, so does MPM's metaphor about Auschwitz.

BTW, what do you think of the phrase "Young Turks"?

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