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sure, your point is well taken, I mean if they were Secessionists of the 1860s or Afrikaners that would be one thing. Based on my own personal experience both living in Sarajevo in the 1950s (the 100,000 civilians I alluded to were the ones killed there in the 90s) and in dealing with certain people from this area in this country in my work in the fishing industry and elsewhere, is that many of them are imbued with a blatant deep seated and vile racist attitude towards Turkish and Muslim people and that they are in fact an oppressed people. I think if folks here weren't wrapped in this knee jerk attitude based on perceived global politics, that fact would be patent as we see stories about the condition and racist mis-treatment of Muslim people in Europe all the time. We just can't be in denial about the war crimes committed by Karazdic and the Chetnik chauvinists because it doesn't fit in with our preconceived scheme about how the world is supposed to work, to do so can cause us to be view as morally bankrupt. On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:58 AM, S. Artesian <sartes...@earthlink.net> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > The basic issue is if there is real oppression. The fact that Muslims, a > religion, and/or Bosnians, a ethnic group, are minorities does not > automatically mean that they were oppressed nationalities, suffering > discrimination and exploitation at the hands of the Serbs. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tom Cod" <tomc...@gmail.com> > To: <sartes...@earthlink.net> > > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/tomcod3%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
