Dear Yokes,
Your comments on my girlfriend are a perfect illustration of your fatal flaw: You THINK you know something but in fact you are completely ignorant of the facts.
Here come the knockout blow: My girlfriend is not Serbian.
How does that sit with your preconceived notions and prejudices? It is so easy to go to a forum and read something about me and then start making guesses. It is much harder to get the facts not to mention understand the truth.
Even if I did have a Serbian girlfriend, even if I was a full blooded signed up Serb, my provenance, personal relations and characteristics have nothing whatsoever to do with this discussion. You are attempting argumentum ad hominem, which is a fallacy.
I suggest you familiarise yourself with what fallacies are (so you can avoid embarrassing yourself further) and perhaps have a read of “A Code of Conduct for Effective Rational Discussion” (http://tinyurl.com/3y74eq).
I invited you to post evidence and instead you just repeat you claim that there is “plenty of evidence”. If there is plenty, then post it and lets assess it. Your problem and you know it, is that evidence destroys your slanders. They thrive on half-truth and innuendos. The truth, and its messenger evidence, are against you.
For example, had you actually watched “Death of Yugoslavia” you may have noticed how sympathetic it is to Serbs.
You say you lived for some time in Serbia and you found that the “majority” had “radical views, except for a few intellectuals in Belgrade”. My experience flatly contradicts this. The majority are angered by mistreatment of Serbs, the situation in Kosovo and slanders from the likes of Schwartz and you. Despite that, a minority support the Serbian radicals and a massive part of that minority consists of refugees and other Serb victims of war crimes seeking recognition and justice.
By the way, exactly where and when did you live in Serbia?
You mention certain “events” that are “supported by government” that show “where the wind is blowing from”. What are you talking about? You are big on glittering generalities and short of facts, specifics, arguments or evidence.
I can (and if any other commentator asks for it, I will) post dozens of links to sources as diverse as Encyclopaedia Britannica and Amnesty International establishing beyond any doubt that Serbs were Ethnically Cleansed from the Krajina. If they did not, then there is no such thing as Ethnic Cleansing.
You are, of course, welcome to keep denying that Serbs have suffered Ethnic Cleansing in the Krajina, Kosovo and parts of Bosnia just as you are welcome to deny the world is round. But now that you are in denialist territory you have completely discredited yourself. I see little point in continuing this discussion. I would not waste my time on a Srebrenica denier or a racist, so why should I indulge this anti-Serb bigotry of yours?
