On 10/20/2004 4:40 PM, Ernest Schaal wrote:
> in article cl53u1$lse$2@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp, Scott Reynolds at
> sar@gol.com wrote on 10/20/04 4:26 PM:

>>It occurred to me that you might say he was whitewashing Japan's crimes
>>in WW2.
> 
> The more I thought about your answer that more I realized how stupid it was.

A lot of people say that about things I say.

> Maybe you were trying to be funny, but to assume that I would accuse your
> son of whitewashing Japan's crimes because he isn't interest in modern
> history is like assuming that you would accuse me of prejudice against the
> Chinese because I live in Japan instead of China. It is what we call a non
> sequitur.

I was being facetious, yes. But there was an underlying point to my comment.

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com