because I'm proud to be an American....

 

 The dangerous thing about that kind of satire, Equality, is that somebody might take it at face value.

 

Evangelical christians have sometimes tried a similar tactic in this country. Obviously a country in which the reigning monarch is head of the church, the prime minister (as many have been before him) is an ostentatiously practicing christian, religious education was (until very recently) the only compulsory subject in schools and the BBCs charter obliges it to devote a significant chunk of its output to religious programming is one in which christians are an oppressed minority. 

 

Daytime TV chat shows seem to be filled lackwits from the shallow end of the gene pool complaining that they'd be CEO of Microsoft or Regius Professor of Particle Physics at Cambridge if only the government would stop all those immigrants coming over here with their opposable thumbs and capacity for abstract thought.

 

Sad to say, I expect a similar lawsuit here in the UK sometime in the near future.

 

 

I wouldn't classify any of those things as playing the victim card. I think that's more applicable to something like one of Michael Moore's films were he draws farfetched correlations but people ignore their absurdity because he shows a mother crying about losing her son in Iraq for fifteen minutes.

 

You're right. I don't think the people who put up this case take it seriously. It is just the only way they can find to say bad things about foreigners and get away with it and get it published.

 

 

I've always seen the playing the victim card, and not taking personal responsibility to be a liberal thing.

 

Perhaps they need to meet Mr. Paine.