Re: condemning geographical categories

Maybe I am dense, but the point you are making here (is there a point?)
eludes me.

Andrew Austin
Knoxville, TN

On Thu, 4 May 2000, Jozsef Borocz wrote:

>|In Eastern Europe (for example in Latvia), as soon as Nazi disabled the
>|local police, citizens began beating Jews to death with sticks and their
>|bare hands.
>
>This is inspiring. What is wrong with the following two sentences?
>
>In Western Europe (for example in Germany), as soon as (the) Nazi(s) 
>disabled
>the local police, citizens began deporting Jews to death camps etc.
>
>In North America (for example in L.A.), as soon as the riots disabled the
>local police, citizens began beating up Koreans etc.
>
>Clue: If something is wrong with the latter two, is there nothing wrong 
>with
>the first one?
>
>Jozsef
>
>