I strongly detest whatever that was.
As for “;-)” that is Rob’s standard signature in every post.
"That's my boy! More
situation ethics effortlessly applied!
When is a Cuban a good Cuban and when is he not, that is the question. Othello comes to mind, poor guy.
:-)"
If anyone is unable to understand English properly, let me put it into even more simple terms: these pages are filled with comments about different nationals "invading" the USA - exactly as Lord Trump wants them to think and expound.
Slobodan himself is no advocate of open borders, yet, when a presumably non-native person, still referred to as a Cuban (note, not referred to as an
American) happens to have a conveniently situated café or bar, all is sweetness and light with said nationality and appellation.
However, when Obama attempts to create some much-needed harmony and normalization with that island and its people, he is an idiot selling out America to the Communists!
That's what the term
situation ethics implies: the same thing is good or bad depending on how it fits in with the mood, circumstances and surroundings - not to mention company - within which the person passing the opinion happens to find himself.
To reduce it to even more simple a base: a Cuban "American" with a nice, conveniently placed bar is fine; one living and sweating in Cuba is probably a red threat; as for Raul - he is a Cuban who lives in Florida and posts in LuLa, so he is a good Cuban - which I'm certain he is, even if he sometimes fails to get the implications of written English. Sadly, he isn't the only one, it seems.
This is no attack on Cuba or Cubans: I only know and respect
one Cuban: a musician who lives here on the island. A more pleasant, polite and cultured person you couldn't hope to meet. The post was a question: when or when not is a person - a Cuban, in this case, considered a good person or otherwise? The implied answer to that question being as I wrote here: depends much on whether you like him or not, and who you happen to be with at the time of making your comment.
My post is not, was not, and in no way resembles an attack on either Cuba or Cubans.
To clarify even further:
1. I am myself of mixed breed: the perfect mongrel; part Brit and part Italian with a background of living in both those countries as well as in India and Spain. I have been able to observe the various nationalist antics of all of those peoples and in my judgement, they all come down to backing the home team, rightly or wrongly. That's pathetic. There is a lack of objectivity that leads to much of the trouble we see in our world today.
2. In the correspondence above, it happened to be the word Cuban that was employed. You could interchange that noun with almost any other that denotes a country of origin and it comes down to exactly the same thing, the same argument and the same cultural blindness, and all can and are used in the same convenient little packagings dependent on personal advantages at the time.
