FAQ

Q: You must be a neo-con with all of your Anti-Anti-Americanophobic posts.

A: No. Actually, I’m a moderate, and an independent voter with a liberal tilt. You can read my political profile here.

Q: You must be another one of those born-again Christian fanatic inbred hillbillies by all of your Anti-Anti-Americanophobic blog entries.

A: Wrong again. I’m an atheist, a city girl, there’s no incest running in my family, I don’t live in a trailer, don’t have a red neck, am not obsessed with fast food, don’t drive a pick-up truck, don’t kill animals or eat squirreled-popcorn, and have all of my teeth.

Q: Do you hate Canadians?

A: Absolutely not. I dislike, however, ignorant elitists who over-confidently speak publicly about issues they are clueless about and then turn around and call the very same people they mock, “ignorant“. So, I guess you can also say I dislike hypocrisy as well.

Q: I think you’re a little bit paranoid or overreacting about the Americanophobia. Why, only a small percentage of Canadians don’t like Americans. Most of them don’t.

A: Let me first just say that most of the literature that I have on Americanophobia is written by non-Americans. You can find this literature here. So, I find comfort that I’m not alone in my state of “paranoia”.

While I respect the fact that you’re ignorant on this topic, your comments would be more impressive if you were to actually have a more informed opinion.

Q: I’m an American and have never experienced Americanophobia in Canada.

A: Here are the following reasons as to why you probably haven’t experienced it:

• They haven’t noticed you’re American.
• You hate America so much (and are Anti-American, yourself) that the insults hurled about your ex-fellow countrymen only give you comfort.
• You never disagree with them.
• You have spent SO much of your time in the states with Radical Republicans that are just… so nasty that you are still breathing that breath of fresh air in Canada.
• You are an iconoclast elitist – the type that disagrees with the obvious just for the sake of disagreeing with the intent to appear as though you’re “being original”.
• You have been very lucky.

Q: Do you have Islamophobia?

A: No. I make the distinction very clear in my blog that it is Islamic *Fundamentalism* that I’m against. However, I respect your opinion if you like honor killings, rapes of infidel girls, car bombings, wife beatings and terrorist attacks.

Q: Are you the only American standing against Americanophobia?

A: No, actually not. If you go to Amazon.com and type in “Anti-Americanism”, you’ll find several books written by American authors as well as those living in other countries that challenge the stereotypes often spoon-fed to individuals who cannot think for themselves. Read more in my “about this blog” section. I am, however, the only American standing blog that talks back to the Americanophobes.

Q: Why, when I click on some of your Facebook groups (the ones that are Americanophobic), I get the Facebook homepage instead?

A: That’s because I report all those groups on Facebook that are solely dedicated to bashing Americans. Once Facebook management gets a hold of my complaint, they delete the offending group. And that’s why you get the homepage instead of the group.

Now, I’m all for free speech, however, bashing American people has become an acceptable form of prejudice in both Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Europe. The very fact that I mostly see American-Hate groups is really unfair – hence my complaining about them. I want this “acceptable form of xenophobia” to become unacceptable in the future – as unacceptable as Chinese-bashing. If you think that bashing American people is “fair game” because of how “evil” we are, then you’d bash other evil groups of people as well. But you don’t.

Anyway, I try and update those links whenever I get a chance. My apologies for any inconvenience.

Q: How come you haven’t written a new entry in a long time?

A: Be patient. I do lots of things other than blogging, for one. And two, I have a job just like everyone else. Thirdly, I’m still (this is going to take a long time) trying to fix and tag all of those posts that I’ve imported over from Typepad. My imported Typepad posts are a mess, aren’t very readable, and VERY outdated! So, I spend some of my time going through them fixing, deleting, and updating. I do this in between posting new entries.

Q: If you’re not a neo-con, then why do you have conservatives in your blogroll and as guest posters?

A: Must I have everything in common with those whom I cyberspace with? Let’s also not confuse neo-cons with true conservatives, either! If they are on the FAR right, they won’t be there. I say this because there won’t be any right-wing extremists who’d want to have anything to do with my blog. I’m way too liberal for them. Next, conservatives (not right-wingers) and I all share one important issue in common: we’re all against Americanophobia.

Q: Is being against Americanophobia the same as being “Pro-American”?

A: No! Why? Because being by being Pro-American, you are accepting, supporting, and condoning all-things-American-government. Rejecting American politics and American government is *NOT* Americanophobia!!! Please, once again, view my definition of Americanophobia here.

Q: I made a comment on your blog. Why isn’t my post showing up?

A: More than likely it is because you’re a spammer and/or have not agreed to my terms on commenting. Some people are banned from my blog for good – some only temporarily. And if a comment has been banished to spam, they go unread by me and straight to the recycling bin. In the instance of a glitch in the system, please accept my apologies. Come back at another time and comment again or send me an email. My email address is on my “about this blog” page.

Q: Why did you change the name of your blog, and why are you writing about liberal politics?

A: The answer to your question is here.

Q: Why do I have to become a registered user to comment on your blog now?

A: During times of the year when I get super-busy, I will turn off “automatic comments” and make you register as it saves a lot of time for me if I cannot be at my computer. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Q: What is your email address so that I can contact you, personally?

A: My email address can be found on my “about this blog” page.

Q: Where are all these “liberal posts” you speak of?

A: Clearly, you’re not looking hard enough as 85% of my blog is concerning liberal/moderate politics. Currently, I have over 160 posts in my “War and Politics” section. Get to work. Wanna short-cut? Start from 2005 and up.

Q: I see you hand-pick your sources even if they do come from international newspapers. I don’t care where they come from. How do you claim to be fair while hand-picking your sources?

A: Naturally, I hand-pick my sources. I don’t wait for them to fall from the sky. I follow a specific pattern in my blog. I find an opinion that I want to challenge and present that to my readers. Then to counter that, I find an opinion that contradicts the one that I am challenging. So, rather than finding ONE opinion, my readers have TWO to go by all the while I have challenged my opponent to look at the other side of the story that’s been untold. Then, my readers can decide which argument they like better. Debate usually takes on this type of scenario.

Q: How come I need a password to see your hate mail section now???

A: I only allow select people to see and comment in that part of my blog. If you want to see it, just send me an email.

Q: How come you didn’t pay a special tribute to 9-11 on your blog on its anniversary? Do you hate America? How come you didn’t talk about the Mumbai terrorist attacks? Don’t you read the news?

A: While I do discuss current events every once in a while on my blog, my blog is not about current events. The only times I talk about current events would be if it were somehow related to the original theme of my blog.

Keep in mind, just because I’m not discussing an issue on my blog, doesn’t mean that I’m not thinking about it or feeling it. I don’t and shouldn’t have to prove anything to anyone by simply typing up a blog post.

And if you have to come to my blog to learn about current events, that’s pretty sad. Flattering for me, but sad for you.