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From: grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Hypocrisy
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Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 14:39:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  6 14:39:11 1984
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bip.


	Well, this is old news, and it is silly to blame "this country"
    (as it exists now) for things that happened > 100 years ago, on the
    other hand, "this country" takes a lot of credit for things it did
    then, too.
	I'm not sure what this comes out to in raw numbers, but consider
    that Hitler (not a communist) destroyed about 40% (?) of the Jewish
    population in his attempted genocide.  Mao killed only a small
    percentage of his population.  The gov't. of the USofA was responsible
    for the destruction of 99% of the native population of this land.
	The president most responsible for this action is still an
    honored hero in American culture, and enjoys center stage on our
    $20 bill.  At least in modern Russia Stalin has become a non-entity
    (amazing how they do that), and in modern Germany Hitler is almost
    unanimously rejected.


						-Glenn