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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Explorer: [QB] Here's the deal: It matters not specifically where in Africa I come from, nor do I even care whether you are African. Let's just say that as a continental African, I'm appalled by your usage of "[i]I'm an African[/i]" BS as a crutch for every dubious caricature you make of Africans. "Being African" doesn't give you license to spread BS about the continent with impunity and pass "hunches" about Africans overseas, whom you have never met, as "fact". You've never met me, save for communicating with me via this internet medium, and so, your baseless "hunches" about me, which again you pass off as fact, as though you personally know me, means squat to me. You know nothing about the accuser either. Heck, you wouldn't even have known the accuser was west African, had you not heard it from the media. Yet, you pass your "hunches" about her off as some irrefutable "fact", because you say, "I'm from Africa, west Africa" and that you happen to have "family living in Guinea". You are so consumed by ideology that you simply cannot sense the absurdity of this whole affair about you. You may think that using "I'm a west African" crutch for every assumption you make will give you a pass, whereby nobody will presumably question any dubious claim you make about Africans and Africa or yet, charge you with racism where Africans or "black" folks are concerned, but you are making a miscalculation in entertaining that kind of thinking. Your assumption that this board has political boundaries, i.e. you are just dealing with Americans, is a grave mistake. When you make unfounded claims about Africans, or folks from any other part of the globe, don't be so sure of yourself, that folks from these regions are not watching your words. All your ramblings about refugee this or that, are totally irrelevant to this case, unless--as I have requested repeatedly to def ears--you are prepared to show us photocopies of the accuser's immigration papers, as proof that you have personally met this accuser and know her on such a personal level, that you have the audacity to tell readers here that she arrived as a refugee. You went from initially implying that the accuser must be an "undocumented" immigrant, which you rationalized as not having "the right papers", to implying that she must be a "refugee" who is "legally entitled to seek work", and now, that she could well have used some semi-legal tactic to seek long term residency in the U.S., presumably by first getting a "temporary" visa, like say a tourist visa or student visa, so as to provide the means to attain longer lasting residency by a subsequent attainment of either a green card or citizenship while on U.S. soil. I'm fairly aware that there are even folks, usually young males, from western Africa who forge relationships with females who could even be their grandmothers, just as a means to getting into "western" countries. I already know about these sorts of things, and I don't need some internet stranger to lecture me on them, presumably by wrongly guessing that I'm of some other origin but African. While it is true that there are individuals who come into "western" countries this way, it doesn't make [i]any[/i] African immigrant in said countries [i]by default[/i] "refugees" or perpetrators of the methods you described. I, for one, would be offended if someone simply took it [i]for granted[/i] that I'm a "refugee", simply because I'm an African, and especially so, if someone passed that lie off as "fact", predicated on the notion that the liar is also "African". Applying the way you think, I could well have simply dismissed you as some refugee, during your proclaimed stay in some south American country, Brazil if I recall, or yet, as someone who possibly arrived on a temporary visa and may have overstayed the authorized duration. In all your ramblings about the immigration status of the accuser, you've been so consumed by revising your claims and limiting damage control, that you failed to see the inconsistencies in your claims from one post to the next. For example, your initial premise was to portray the accuser as someone who would have been afraid to "frame" Strauss-Kahn, because she would have been essentially an "undocumented worker", which in your words, would be to say that she would not have had "the right papers". When informed that the press claims that she is [i]in fact[/i] a "documented worker", you changed your tune to implying--without ever having to say it straight up-that she must be a "refugee" who may be "legally entitled to seek employment". You were obviously dismissive of the inconsistency between the former claim and this "refugee" claim, in that the latter would have still required "authorization" for work and "documentation" of immigration status; whereas the former is "undocumented". Even as a refugee, a person would have to have documentation that allows residency, which will also contain the details of why the person has been authorized residency and why said person is "legally entitled" to seek work. Your next revision is to imply that if she were not a refugee, then she must have come into the country through some temporary visa or other means, which would have made her vulnerable to renewing her status, and so make her "afraid" of engaging in action that might make that process difficult. Mind you, all this "brainstorming" consists of just one assumption after another that you pass off as undeniable fact, which you proceed to justify with the claim that you are "from west Africa" and "have family in Guinea", and which you use to claim that you alone know "how things work" in Africa, and makes your experiences "unique", i.e. different from my "social and racial environment", which surprise--surprise, happens to be nothing more than another guesswork about a stranger you never even set eyes on but just bumped into on an internet forum. All this posturing for what? Pathetically, just to defend your dogmatic position on the criminal case at hand. Unless you can portray this accuser as someone "too afraid" of partaking in a daring action to [i]hypothetically[/i] frame the accused, on the basis of her "inadequate" immigration status, you feel that your [i]a priori[/i] stance on the criminal case will not be airtight and "incontestable". This is why you go to so much trouble to make unfounded assumptions not only about the accuser, but people with whom you are discussing this topic. Pathetic, to say the least. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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