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	May 14th, 2009 - 01:36 pm

No, I didn't. I said:

On the bright side, it's been years since any of these countries went to war with each other, when it used to be a near-constant; frankly I'll take making catty jokes about other European Union countries while still actually maintaining the EU as greatly preferable.

I would argue that, in context, "these countries" clearly implies the countries that I was already talking about, which is, in fact, mostly England and France, and in general terms, I had specified countries which are on roughly equal terms nowadays.

Extrapolating from there to Kosovo and oppressed countries in Eastern Europe and the implication that somehow I'm in favour of racist stereotyping of marginalised European ethnic groups because I think the evolution of Anglo-French and similar relations to the point where it's jokes instead of warfare and the jokes themselves are getting called out for their racism is a good thing...

... makes me tired. Because I haven't been interacting with you long, but I like you, so far, and I really don't want to get into an argument where I have to defend myself against implications of ethnic prejudice or defend my right, now and then, to think and write about things that aren't in any way related to attempted genocide - at least until people make a point of bringing up Kosovo and Eastern Europe and Poland and Roma.