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by mh_ 4780 days ago
a) this comment is annoyingly simple minded and pretty plainly racist. ("Those people"? Really?) b) with all the talk of un-warranted wiretaps, and the state of surveillance building up in the US/Europe, it's probably a bad time to throw stones c) it's worth spending some time to investigate how "those" countries have had democracy deliberately crippled for decades by western powers needing puppet dictators to guarantee their flow of oil (try a YouTube search for "secrets of the seven sisters")
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(try a YouTube search for "secrets of the seven sisters")

Better to grab the article from aljazeera:

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2013/04/20...

But I object to your using of the term 'racist' to describe GP's remark. S/He made no mention of race, only culture.

> a) this comment is annoyingly simple minded and pretty plainly racist. ("Those people"? Really?)

Referring to people as a group makes you racist now?