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To: Dr. Frank
Where are you picking up on this "arrogance?" Certainly not in the piece at the top of this thread. As for the "arrogant" responses, what would I expect from those that disagree with me if I posted "Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is a fag?" Compassion? Understanding?
282 posted on 05/31/2002 3:30:46 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
Where are you picking up on this "arrogance?"

Well, in the posts of Hotspur, to name but an example. (Hotspur, you will recall, is the poster to whom my #277 - which you are responding to here - was actually directed and to whom the word "arrogance" was used.)

Remember Hotspur? He's the one who said that

Soccer is just one of many examples where silly, annoying American "exceptionalism" displays itself.

In other words, he knows how annoying we Americans can be.

But don't blame him because even though he's presumably American, he's not one of the "annoying" ones who doesn't watch soccer (and how "annoying" that is, indeed!). You see, he's wise enough to know how Americans are seen by "the rest of the world":

It's the disconnect between our global pretensions and the lack of worldliness of our citizens that makes the rest of the world anti-American

Ah, that's what makes "the rest of the world" "anti-American"! Got it! I understand it all now. Hotspur's got it all figured out!

In addition, recall that (still as part of this whole soccer discussion, apparently...) he holds a percentage of our "parliament" in rather disdain for (gasp!) never having had a passport:

How can a nation deign to dictate to the world when something on the range of half of the members of its parliament have never held a passport?

No passport! My word! Well you can be sure that Hotspur is not so provincial as our backward "parliamentarians". Surely he, in his eminence, has a passport.

That's what I was calling "arrogant", 1rudeboy. Understand now?

296 posted on 05/31/2002 5:39:01 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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