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Wed Nov-19-08 10:39 PM
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Faux News Byline: "AFRICAN " pirates hijack tanker |
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....other news channel bylines...CNN, MSNBC
"Somali pirates" or simply "pirates!"
They are so obvious....
Fruckers!
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Wed Nov-19-08 10:46 PM
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1. Well they ARE Africans,just like we call ourselves Americans. |
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Wed Nov-19-08 10:50 PM
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2. You missed it...and that's okay. n/t |
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Wed Nov-19-08 10:53 PM
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4. Would you call a Mexican or a Canadian an "American" in a news story? |
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Wed Nov-19-08 10:59 PM
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6. No,but we should. Everyone always refer to US citizens as |
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Americans and it drives me nuts.Most of the world does it,as if we were one country. The book "THe Ugly American" certainly wasn't about Brazilians.
Sarah Palin isn't the only one with poor knowledge of geography.
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Wed Nov-19-08 11:04 PM
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9. I believe we cornered the term "Americans" because we are |
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Edited on Wed Nov-19-08 11:05 PM by Texas Explorer
citizens of the United States of America. Shorten that to America. Hence, Americans. What else could we be called? USAns? Or USAsians? What?
Anyone know this history?
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Wed Nov-19-08 11:16 PM
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10. The former citizens of the USSR were called Soviets,maybe we |
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could have been called Statists.
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Thu Nov-20-08 06:56 AM
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21. Always believed we should have had a nickname for the U.S.A. |
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Everyone likes to call themselves Americans excluding the Canadians, Mexicans, and those in the Caribbean.
And we all know what Faux News was trying to do with that byline.
"Oh hey, those black people are doing bad things again. Story at 6."
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Thu Nov-20-08 01:39 PM
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24. You DO on this side of the pond!!! |
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That you're unaware of them speaks volumes.
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Wed Nov-19-08 10:57 PM
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5. they are from the country of Somalia that is located in the continent that is Africa. |
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Wed Nov-19-08 11:00 PM
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Thu Nov-20-08 12:56 AM
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15. But are the pirates themselves Somalians? |
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Edited on Thu Nov-20-08 12:56 AM by Rage for Order
Maybe they simply operate out of Somalia because of the country's strategic position related to the shipping channels. Without knowing the nationalities of the pirates, it seems a bit presumptuous to call them Somalian pirates.
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Thu Nov-20-08 06:58 AM
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Wed Nov-19-08 10:51 PM
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3. Like Sarah Palin, they think Africa is a country. |
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Wed Nov-19-08 10:59 PM
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7. Africa is a country ...... on the continent of Somalia. |
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Edited on Wed Nov-19-08 11:00 PM by gbrooks
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Wed Nov-19-08 11:21 PM
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11. They have to say that because the typical FAUX viewer |
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has no idea where Somalia is.
But they DO know that Africa = Mostly black and brown people.
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Thu Nov-20-08 12:41 AM
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14. I bet they think its all black and brown people. |
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I have a friend who is an Afrikaner, and when he tells them he is originally from South Africa they always look at him and say "but you're white?!"
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Thu Nov-20-08 02:01 AM
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16. Thank you...they intentionally colored it....n/t |
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Wed Nov-19-08 11:24 PM
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12. Headline, not byline - the latter attributes authorship. |
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Thu Nov-20-08 02:02 AM
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17. Thanks for the correction...appreciate that...eom. |
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Wed Nov-19-08 11:27 PM
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13. By saying "African" instead of "Somalian" they are implying that ALL of Africa is doing it. |
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Thu Nov-20-08 02:57 AM
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18. No... I think it's something else at play here... |
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If you can't figure it out, set your monitor's brightness to zero. Then you should be able to see what they're really hinting at.
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Thu Nov-20-08 01:43 PM
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25. What they're hinting at is obvious, or should be. |
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Thu Nov-20-08 04:52 AM
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20. .. as opposed to North American, or European, or Asian, etc. etc. |
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They went to the same school as Palin. They think Africa is a country.
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Thu Nov-20-08 07:35 AM
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23. Unfortunately, piracy is again increasing |
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Piracy has been reported originating from Yemen as well as Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti. There are Brazilian and Haitian pirates; tho' these have declined due to anti drug patrols; as well as pirates in the Straits of Malacca from both Sumatra and Malaya and in the South China Sea from Philippines, Vietnam, Borneo and, maybe, China.
Whilst I agree that African has racial overtones it is inappropriate to lable pirates by a country name because it is not privateering (State sponsored piracy). That said pirates is probably sufficient.
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Thu Nov-20-08 01:46 PM
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26. Well their Goddess thinks Africa is one big country so why not? |
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