I am sick and tired of being made fun on grounds that I have no responsibility for whatsoever, since I didn't choose to be born here, and it is especially annoying when I realize that most accusations are greatly exaggerated. I'm sorry, but I do not attack people on grounds of nationality, period.
No one attacked
you.
No one even attacked your
nationality. If anything was attacked, it was the perceived typical Italian political dialoque - and the basis on this "attack" was largely
your previous statements on the matter. How far are you trying to twist this argument? Why do you have to see yourself as some sort of a victim here, where you obviously never were one? Just like you said,
you have no responsibility of the quality of debates in Italian politics - there's
no reason for you to feel insulted!
As for the comparison,
everything going on in Italy is certainly a lot sillier than what happened in Yugoslavia - because there's absolutely nothing
silly about genocide. Can't you see it? It is just like Rahvin stated,
first world issues with third world mentality, whereas a little over a decade ago there were
third world issues with Neanderthalean mentality in Bosnia and Croatia.
That is how I read Viz's statement - and so would've you, had you not been so blinded by your national oversensitivity and preparedness to perceive yourself constantly targeted and attacked. The point of his comparison was
not that Italians are any worse than anyone else, it was just that Italians are having hugely dramatized and emotionally overloaded political debates about certain issues (like you have repeatedly told us) - the kind of issues the less developed countries would be happy to have instead of their own, medieval issues.
Also, he said that the way the Italian political debates are presented (by you, and by media) is threatening the perspective other people have of Italians. Which, I believe, is a very important observation. And again, this appeared as a legitimate concern, not as any sort of an attack - to all the sensible people, at least.
Just for comparison, let me represent a similar argument from another perspective:
Me: I hate the way the Finnish tabloids are all over our Prime Minister's recent love affair (there's really no such tradition in Finland, "political celebrity scandals" are a relatively new thing around here).
Another Finn, let's say Ormir: Yeah, they just spew out all kinds of shit about him, and forget all the really important issues.
Me: And the worst thing is the stupid people buy and read them.
Ormir: True, Finnish journalism is getting worse every day.
A Swede, let's say Erik: Finnish tabloids are stupid, they make Finns look sillier than even Norwegians.
Me: Fucking racist, go fuck yourself! Raargh!!!
Can you see the similarity? Can you see the horribly idiotic overreaction? Good.
Finally, I must say that I keep to myself the right to criticise the political system or the quality of debates of any country in the world, even if I don't know where they are on the map, and even if I base all my knowledge on them on what someone wrote on some internet-forum. That's part of the free speech, after all. You may have chosen to give your right away, but all the other people in the world still have it. And if you always choose to be insulted when someone criticises something you have no responsibility of, it is
your problem, not theirs.
-Villain
