[tied] Re: Moderatorial warning

From: tgpedersen
Message: 42153
Date: 2005-11-18

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "squilluncus" <grvs@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Exu Yangi" <exuyangi@...> wrote:
> >
> > Gentle beings,
> >
> > If we are truly heading down the road of policed political
> correctness, then
> > may I most humbly point out that it is just as racist to
say "I'll
> never
> > understand the blacks" as it is to say "I'll never understand
the
> Swedes".
>
> It is not always easy to be politically correct, specially when
> treating the subject of expansionist Swedes who have subdued vast
> areas of the Kattegatt-Skagerack culture. Myself having the plight
> of being a Swedish 'Staatsbürger' in this occupied area with
control
> of spirit purchase and public indoor smoking must acknowledge,
> though, that the Swedes have saved us from a lot of chaos
providing
> us with a unitarian voltage for railway traction already in the
> twenties.
>

To the Swedes that might be reading this: People that fascinate me,
I don't understand. The day I understand them is the day they don't
fascinate me anymore. Those two statements are two sides to the same
coin. That might be why I still go visit and/or talk on the phone
with my Swedish ex-girlfriend in Stockholm, after 30 years.


Torsten