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WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apar

WASP is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so its inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. – Christopher Hitchens

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I dont think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again. – Christopher Hitchens

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I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows theres no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. Thats all crap. – Christopher Hitchens

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