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Anyone who thinks that I was too harsh about Jonah Goldberg's repulsive and politically motivated rewriting of my own country's history ought to read today's Thomas Sowell column, where it is taken entirely at its own valuation and highly recommended as summer reading for the children of conservatives. This unhistorical, culturally imperialistic propaganda, that distorts my country's and my continent's history in the service of provincial American concerns, is going to enter the bloodstream of a whole American party, If it has not already done so. This will increase further the mutual incomprehension between USA and Europe, because you cannot stand on your two hind legs and inform anyone who knows anything of continental history - France, Italy, Germany, etc. - that Nazism and Fascism were "left wing". This sort of rubbish, especially if spoken with the arrogance of Goldberg and Sowell, will increase European contempt for American viewpoints and culture. Do we really need this sort of trash further complicating our already difficult relationship, and all for the sake of a few Republican votes in the next election?

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Please defriend me already.

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No one else has ever gotten any constructive results out of arguing with you, no matter how overwhelming the facts against you, so I won't bother. Though this post did have the comic relief of you referring to Thomas Sowell as "arrogant".

I defriended you a long time ago. I saw the warning signs when you made silly comments on my LJ attacking my heroes Reagan and Thatcher, but all I did at that time was remove you from my political filters. I didn't defriend you altogether until, in a comment thread on my LJ, you told an Eastern Orthodox Christian that her church was guilty of "the heresy of Hebraization", I believe you called it. That was hardly antisemitic, but nonetheless a tactless remark to make on a Jew's LJ, and more to the point, if you believe that the Eastern Orthodox Church is committing heresy, you need to talk to Orthodox bishops about it, not some chick on my F-list. I'm sure you can set the Orthodox Church straight in no time.

I haven't cruised by your LJ in a long time, except once to defend one of my other friends from a highly ungentlemanly post you made about her, but I followed a link to this post today. If you're saying stuff like this on a regular basis, it makes being on your F-list highly embarrassing.

I ask you now, please do me the kindness of defriending me.

Re: Please defriend me already.

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As I recall, I warned you when you asked me if you could friend me. If you cannot bear such things as criticism of Ronald Thatcher, good luck with the world - you'll need it. I thought you had a little more guts than that.