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brightness

05/16/10 6:09 PM

#651364 RE: maokin #651363

Good Lord, now we have the PC police enforcing complete ignorance and anachronism. For what it's worth, the term "kraut" did not refer to an ordinary German civilian, but a German soldier or a soldier presumed to be fighting for the German regime (in WWI and WWII). Because the German U-Boat force was a volunteer force, the crew may not have been entirely German; could have been other nationalities serving in the Kriegsmarine. Hence I quoted the witness/survivors' term in quotation marks.
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Taxmantoo

05/17/10 8:41 AM

#651419 RE: maokin #651363

Mark: I hope you put the bottle away and got some sleep.

If I call Gordon Brown a Limey, does that make me a racist too?