# Viva Espana ! I’m impressed by your courage and determination. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 16, 2004, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viva-espana-i-m-impressed-by-your-courage-and-determination/234615 "2004-03-16T12:33:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Aldebaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Aldebaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aldebaran)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viva-espana-i-m-impressed-by-your-courage-and-determination/234615/121 "2004-03-21T19:51:35Z")
> [@Eva L](#): > > Whom are you addressing in post #94? You. > [@](#): > > In return, I will clarify why you are annoying me to death: you weren’t talking about how “the vast majority” of Americans had not come out to demonstrate. You continually use the word “Americans” when you should be saying “some Americans” or even “the majority of Americans.” I will grant you that too many Americans are politically apathetic. However, you keep talking about “Americans” like we are some gigantic, monolithic herd of sheep. We are not. No, I do not. See for answering this and the quote here under my posts 25 44 63 87 90 91 94 > [@](#): > > I, personally, get really pissed off when people equate me and my friends and loved ones with George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, just as you would probably get pissed off at people who talk about “Arab terrorists” as if all Arabs are terrorists, or that Arab = Muslim = fundamentalist wacko. I don’t feel any call to cure people from their own intellectual laziness. There are a few around here (like among others the one who shows some weird obsession to refer to me as “our Saudi” with all the underlying bigotry included) but over all such people are an exception on this website. So no, sorry, but I don’t care if people talk about “Arabs” as if we are all terrorists or about “Arab=Muslim=fundamentalist wacko”. What I care about is that there are indeed “Arabs” who clearly follow a lunatical call to become terrorists and that there are indeed Muslims, Arab and other, who are clearly fundamentalist wackos. I even know quite a few of them and they don’t particularly like me, since they never could win any debate with me. > [@](#): > > Sometimes the fact that the question is worded differently is very, very important. You should be able to grasp that regardless of your English writing abilities, if you’d only pay attention. It doesn’t take perfect English grammar to get a clue. I said it before: My impression is that it is merely the fact that a non-US’er dares to make **any** remark about the Great USA, its Great President and Great People that provokes people to go in attack mode. Re-read your post 113 and tell me why you would possibly have a claim that what you say there isn’t the same issue as I questioned about. You attacked me and then you come back and once again say exactly the same as I did. Salaam. A ---
**Author:** ![GoHeels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b3f665/32.png) [@GoHeels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoHeels)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viva-espana-i-m-impressed-by-your-courage-and-determination/234615/122 "2004-03-21T21:05:36Z")
> [@Aldebaran](#): > > I said it before: My impression is that it is merely the fact that a non-US’er dares to make **any** remark about the Great USA, its Great President and Great People that provokes people to go in attack mode. “…You tell me it’s the institution Well you know You better free your mind instead…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viva-espana-i-m-impressed-by-your-courage-and-determination/234615.md?page=6)