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To: BroJoeK
Your continuous usage of the term "fire eaters" is a deliberate attempt to derogate and dismiss their concerns as unworthy of consideration.

It is simply evidence that you have no understanding of objectivity, and cannot argue from any perspective other than a subjective one.

I suppose it makes you feel good to mock and malign people with whom you disagree. This technique has a long usage in History. After the Nazis encountered stiff resistance from insurgent Poles, they started spreading Polish jokes to mock and make fun of the people they would eventually defeat.

It may be a coping mechanism for you, but it is unworthy of a rational man.

674 posted on 08/27/2015 6:14:20 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp; PeaRidge; x; Ditto; rockrr; Mollypitcher1; HandyDandy
DiogenesLamp: "Your continuous usage of the term "fire eaters" is a deliberate attempt to derogate and dismiss their concerns as unworthy of consideration."

That term, "Fire Eaters" is just one of many used by people at the time to refer to themselves and others.

Those are all I can think of off the top of my head, but there were doubtless others.
They are all historical terms, used at the time by both the people themselves sometimes, and more often by their political enemies.

716 posted on 08/27/2015 2:31:38 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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