Quote Originally Posted by bad manners
If you think that I am going to start proving what you want me to start proving, then you've got another think coming, joysof my splendid old chap. Your adopting red herring tactics implies that you cannot dispute my analogy, which I am enormously pleased to notice. I, on the other hand, do not think it necessary to state anything beyond that analogy, because that analogy alone is already enough to speak about nationalistic (to put it mildly) tendencies in that pitiful country. When you have any hard facts that would enable you to disprove my analogy, it will be my pleasure to continue this discussion.
Have you been eating raw ginger, bm? Logic appears to have deserted you.

Of course I can dispute your analogy: it's wrong, enormously so. I have already made the point that Latvia has no legislation to compare with that passed in Germany in the early thirties. At most, they're indulging in a little over-enthusiastic identity-reclaiming after nearly fifty yoked years. Ethnic Russians in Latvia have a difficult time; so do Algerians in Paris, Tutsis in Rwanda and Italian telephonics experts in Iraq. The world's a hell of a place and Latvia these days is one of the better places in it. Where's the herring? What more can I fetch you?