Continents vs Countries, Rebuttals, and Clearing the Air

Country vs Continent? I’ve been indirectly “paged” so to speak on my hypocrisy of having found it odd that a European compares the diversity of Europe vs the United States. Yes, it is entirely unfair for anybody to draw conclusions about a nation based on how they pale in comparison with a CONTINENT of 49 countries. And I firmly believe that everyone agrees with me there. The intent of the “bloggers” that wrote this piece is crystal clear – yet they deny any bias or motives.

With that said, I have been accused of hypocrisy due to writing about Euronationalist Americanophobia.

Here’s a little hint: If you call yourselves Europeans, will we note you as such and return the favor. In case you missed it, Americans call themselves “Americans” - not “North Americans”. We, unlike some Europeans, recognize ourselves as a country and *not* a continent. The map on this page may be of some assistance.

FREE SPEECH: One more thing I’d like to clear up before I go. Dissent is perfectly acceptable on this blog. If you are familiar with my blog, you will see tons of debates throughout between people all over the world. But you must ask yourselves the following questions before commenting:

• Are you genuinely interested in a healthy debate?
• Are you here to fight?
• Is your plan to attack the author or the argument?
• Are you planning to resort to sweeping generalizations about a nation, race, ethnicity (we call this bigotry in the US)?
• Are you planning to read the entirety of the post you comment on, stay on topic – or do you plan on going off on an un-related rant?
• Are you trying to evade my spam filters?

Coming to one’s blog to comment is synonymous to being a guest in one’s home. You are not protected under the United States Amendment of Free Speech granted by the government. For the record, every developed country has rights to free speech. But this has nothing to do with blogging. Apples and oranges. Just ask yourself – if you go to a person’s house to vandalize and act like a total ass, and they kick you out, are you going to cry like a baby that they don’t allow free speech or dissent?

This reminds me of a quote that rings true here:

“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.” –Winston Churchill

Another thing that people with a short fuse tend to forget is that there is a HUGE difference between DISSENT and SILENCING SPEECH. It’s funny how only those banned for not adhering to my comment policy seem to continue to cry about how I’m a speech-silencer of some sort. Everyone is aware when they comment here how this blog works and don’t have any excuse to act surprised.

This has nothing to do with being American as much as having high standards for stimulating and thought-provoking debate. Here is a perfect example for those that are a little slow.

It’s most amusing that the same people that moan and groan about censorship are those same people that have me banned from their blog. Hmm….. Learn the meaning of censorship. Censorship would be if I banned speech from someone else’s blog. But coming from Aby and co., I am not the least bit surprised at the perpetual ignorance.

Now, for some fun stuff!

Aby “the liberal- the ‘Internationalist’” and her crew now have an entire forum on the internet devoted to me and all around American-bashing under the guise of “helping teens”. (The message board is OWNED by them.) It’s a riot! I’ve received ample hits from them, and now I feel like a celebrity!! I’m not even going to bother rebutting the other arguments against me because they’re not being honest and not worth my time. How do you respond to lies?

To make matters more interesting, here are the rules that Aby and co. made for those who utilize their site:

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

Interesting. I have also noticed some of the members to be complaining about Juan McDaniel (Aby “the liberal”’s partner in crime) deleting some member’s posts… for possibly… dissent… perhaps? !!

Uh oh.

Hee hee. Oops. Deleting innocuous dissent that may give away his little game secrets? This is f’n hilarious! And for the record, this post was just deleted!

Another complaint about deleting dissent:

In case you’re confused, Aby’s “partner in crime” AKA (“the protector of mankind) goes under the following names:

- Captain Sasha

- Sasha

- Captain V

- Juan McDaniel

- Captain (Dr.) Alexandr Vasilevski

- Karmen

- Amy

- Bridgette

and god knows what else.

It is now confirmed that I’m dealing with hormonal teenagers!