Well, yes, of course such a topic will polarise the community.
But doesn't just about any topic on this board?
And some of the most heated polarisations I have seen here derive from such apparently "cool" topics as initial caps on lines of poetry.
But this issue of "a dispossessed people" is interesting. Just how long can a people legitimately struggle through violent means to redress a dispossession?
No one doubts, for instance, that the American Indian cultures were dispossessed of their traditional lands by European settlement. But can the descendents of these dispossessed peoples legitimately start hurling bombs on U.S. cities? Surely if the principle is legitimate in the Middle East, it must be admiited everywhere.
My genetic makeup suggests that I have a strong Anglo-saxon strain. Can I legitimately organise a bombing campaign against Norman symbols of oppression for their 1000 year old dispossession of my people?
[This message has been edited by Mark Allinson (edited July 21, 2006).]
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