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nibs:
--- Quote from: Dat Nigga Ted aka The 10th Nazgûl on April 18, 2006, 01:21:14 PM ---Because who he is and what he is is 2 diffrent things.
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is he left handed or right handed?
is he tall or short?
is he healthy or sick? happy or sad? noodles or rice? chicken or steak? boxers or briefs?
what he is is alot of things, none that he has denied. yet you focus on one; and attribute more importance to one then all the rest. why is that? why can't infinite decide what is important to him?
Teddy Roosevelt:
But he HAS idenified himself with America. But it seems a lot of the times when he wants to bash America he changes his mind as says you americans. Then he'll turn around an idenify himself with Arabs, Blacks etc.
Teddy Roosevelt:
--- Quote from: nibs on April 18, 2006, 01:27:35 PM ---
--- Quote from: Dat Nigga Ted aka The 10th Nazgûl on April 18, 2006, 01:21:14 PM ---Because who he is and what he is is 2 diffrent things.
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is he left handed or right handed?
is he tall or short?
is he healthy or sick? happy or sad? noodles or rice? chicken or steak? boxers or briefs?
what he is is alot of things, none that he has denied. yet you focus on one; and attribute more importance to one then all the rest. why is that? why can't infinite decide what is important to him?
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Who you are is your choice. What you are is a combination of many factors. If you are born white can you change that? It's not what you idenify with, it's what you are. If you are born American can you vhange that? No. It's what you are. He will say Americns are living a lie, but then say he isn't. It's a contradiction.
nibs:
--- Quote from: Dat Nigga Ted aka The 10th Nazgûl on April 18, 2006, 01:53:21 PM ---Who you are is your choice. What you are is a combination of many factors. If you are born white can you change that? It's not what you idenify with, it's what you are. If you are born American can you vhange that? No. It's what you are.
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how relevant is it, if it isn't relavent to him? he hasn't denied his race, he simply has not defined himself by that.
--- Quote --- He will say Americns are living a lie, but then say he isn't. It's a contradiction.
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if he doesn't view himself as an american, than it makes sense. in some legal sense, sure; it's a contradiction; he is an american citizen. however, he isn't filing a legal brief. if he does not identify with americans; he can exclude himself freely.
what i'm getting at is this; you aren't arguing his point that americans are living a lie; you are arguing the semantics of what it means to be american.
why argue the semantics of some ancillary issue and ignore the meat of his argument which is that [most] americans are living a lie.
Teddy Roosevelt:
--- Quote from: nibs on April 18, 2006, 02:03:52 PM ---if he doesn't view himself as an american, than it makes sense.
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--- Quote from: Islamic Khalifah Sultan Abdul Hamid- 1908- on March 30, 2006, 08:05:15 PM ---I'm your average white American citizen
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--- Quote from: nibs on April 18, 2006, 02:03:52 PM ---if he doesn't view himself as an american, than it makes sense. in some legal sense, sure; it's a contradiction; he is an american citizen. however, he isn't filing a legal brief. if he does not identify with americans; he can exclude himself freely.
what i'm getting at is this; you aren't arguing his point that americans are living a lie; you are arguing the semantics of what it means to be american.
why argue the semantics of some ancillary issue and ignore the meat of his argument which is that [most] americans are living a lie.
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1st you misunderstand what I am argueing about (that may be my fault for not making it clear enough). I'm not argueing whether Americans are living a lie or not (although you can probably figure out where I stand on that). I'm trying to show the contradiction in his thought process.
2nd of all he dosen't say most Americans are living a lie. He says Americans are living a lie.
3rd he say he isn't living a lie.
4th he contradcts himself because he is American he's even said so himself.
--- Quote from: Islamic Khalifah Sultan Abdul Hamid- 1908- on March 30, 2006, 08:05:15 PM ---I'm your average white American citizen
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What I'm argueing is he contradictes himself in saying he is American, says Americans are living a lie, then thinks he isn't living a lie despite the fact that he is American.
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