Comments on: Flag Burning http://hurryupharry.org/2006/10/30/flag-burning/ Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:44:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: shriber http://hurryupharry.org/2006/10/30/flag-burning/comment-page-1/#comment-120156 shriber Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:06:08 +0000 http://www.hurryupharry.org/2006/10/30/flag-burning/#comment-120156 "I live in a country where I cannot understand much of the language, and some of the cultural practices are very different from mine. I can adapt to all these situations and it does not stop me from identifying with the people, the Chinese - not as people with the same culture or language as me - but as human beings, and thus with quite fundamental and profound commonalities. Thus culture, language and "race" are not unsurmountable barriers." Posted by Benjamin at October 31, 2006 11:02 PM You are kidding yourself, Benjamin. The underlying human being sans language, sans culture is a mythic being. He or she don't exist. "Thus culture, language and "race" are not unsurmountable barriers." Who mentioned "race?" This is a red herring. CUlture nd language differences are far more important than "race." They are what humans are made of. "Race" is just a fictive element that like the "human being" sans culture and language doesn't exist. “I live in a country where I cannot understand much of the language, and some of the cultural practices are very different from mine. I can adapt to all these situations and it does not stop me from identifying with the people, the Chinese – not as people with the same culture or language as me – but as human beings, and thus with quite fundamental and profound commonalities. Thus culture, language and “race” are not unsurmountable barriers.”

Posted by Benjamin at October 31, 2006 11:02 PM

You are kidding yourself, Benjamin. The underlying human being sans language, sans culture is a mythic being. He or she don’t exist.

“Thus culture, language and “race” are not unsurmountable barriers.”

Who mentioned “race?” This is a red herring.

CUlture nd language differences are far more important than “race.” They are what humans are made of. “Race” is just a fictive element that like the “human being” sans culture and language doesn’t exist.

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