RIP Cirrus

"Rich Ahrens" wrote in message
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"No way am I buying any aeroplane built by them heathen Chinee..."

F'ck the Chinese. I don't care if people call it xenophobic. They're
environment-trashing, human-rights-violating, child-abandoning,
dissident-imprisoning communists who sell weapons to our enemies and
block their population from accessing the truth about the world and their
government.

Sound like ideal allies and trading partners then - certainly we have or
have had plenty of other allies guilty of all the above.

Not nearly on the scale of China. Of course, we should avoid business with
any of those nations. (Like Saudi Arabia or Sudan.)

Xenophobic? What are the chances of the Dalai Lama dropping in to watch
the Olympics without disappearing?

It's not phobic to say that China is our ideological enemy. But
I -could- be phobic, because anybody who has nuclear weapons pointed at
my home or tries to steal our military technology is my enemy.

Thank you for demonstrating my point.

Sorry. You're incorrect. It's not xenophobic to call an enemy government the
enemy. I'm not xenophobic for thinking Fidel Castro is a jackass either.
Both governments, coincidentially, have some of the worst media and free
speech censorship on earth. I have no moral qualms whatsoever about
criticizing their governments for what they are.

Fortunately, everywhere except for places like China and Cuba, we don't go
to prison for speaking out against them. There, we would. Wouldn't we?

-c