Re: CHAT: Nov 11th

Ed Heil wrote:

> (For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the acronym, WASP means
> "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" and often, though not in this instance
> as far as I can tell, connotes "rich; golf-playing; constipated;
> boring.")
"I am what is commonly known as a WASP, and therefore belong to the
only ethnic group that it is entirely safe to ridicule."
        -- Northrop Frye

> Nik, just to clarify, you surely must mean "it is possible for
> English-speaking WASPs and English-speaking non-WASPs to fail to
> reach
> an agreement," not "it is not possible for those two groups to reach
> an agreement."
No, he means what he says, _in the neo-Nazi worldview_.

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