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 "Bill Levinson"  wrote in message 
 news:hlDfd.8789$5i5.464@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net... 
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 > >>>"It is quite appropriate to use ethnic slurs for 
 > >>>the enemy during wartime." 
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 > So you think the 100 million or so Americans who used words like "Kraut" 
 > and "Jap" during World War II were all racists? 
  
 Go take a look some time at newsreels and US propoganda films from 
 WW II.  Especially when concerning the Japanese, these films were filled 
 with the most outragelously blatant racial stereotyping. 
  
 >Or for that matter that 
 > the Germans who called us "Amerikaner schwein" were racists? 
  
 You're seriously asking this question?  The whole ideology of 
 National Socialism in Germany was built on racism.  Hitler was 
 alwaus blathering in his speeches about how America was an 
 inferior country because the US allowed in all sorts of "racially 
 inferior" groups which were permitted to intermarry with Aryan whites. 
 For him, the US was a mongrel nation. 
  
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