Comments by "bohemianwriter1" (@bohemianwriter1) on "Netanyahu Called ‘Chickenshit’ & Now Everyone's Crying Foul" video.
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***** I've been dealing with romas myself lately.I'm a writer.
I know about the progressive moves that France made. But there was also a time when France regressed after Napoleon. I'm thinking about the Dreyfus case in the 1890's.
I wasn't attacking you for being French. I was attacking your government. Like I attack my own. I don't view history as only right and wrong, but grey areas and skeletons in the closet. I attack every government that has flaws. No exception!
Like I said, I love France. Some of my favorite writers are French. Some of them not very politically correct, but I don't care. I also have noticed the difference between the French, English and Irish literature. And it fascinates me.
I also recognize things that are not so great bout a culture and government a as well. Very few of my Greek friends would be offended if I bashed their government and their Golden Dawn. Very few Irish I have met would take it personally if I called their government a bunch of wankers. (Though, I am a huge fan of their president Michael D. Higgins - writer & poet by profession.)
As a traveler and writer, I think I have earned that privilege :-)
Please don't take it personal. If you want to dig up dirt on my country, I can help you with that. It doesn't offend me if there is some truths to them. And if there's something untrue, I brush it off, and correct any misconceptions.
I find it difficult to think that any European country should be exempt from a bit of criticism in their own history present day politics. I do not make excuses for the atrocities my ancestors inflicted on Europe 1200 years ago. I own up to it! And in fact, I some times smile at it. Thinking, we were a bunch of bastards ourselves! I can either be a hypocritical bastard an romanticize them and wallow in hypocrisy or own up to it?, We did that! And as I have shown you, my own government have done påersecurted Romas even up until today. So why should I not criticize other countries that are evenly bad or sometimes even worse?
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