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the empire has no clothes (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by culprit@lemmy.ml to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

I’m not yet ready to cede the term “American” to those who would support genocide.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago

Did you miss, like, the last 500 years or something?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

It wasn’t Americans who invaded America…

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

How many genocided peoples called it America before the colonizers started killing them?

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works -4 points 3 months ago

I mean… Japan isn’t called Japan in Japanese either. Unfortunately we don’t speak Mayan, or Incan, or Cherokee, or etc.…

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm fairly certain they wouldn't collectively name it after a random ass Italian dude.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

My point was that it’s the only word we have in English.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 24 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I use USAmerican to differentiate it from the rest of the American nations.

AmeriKKKan is also acceptable.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

Also Yankee if they're from one of the places that get really mad when they're called Yankees.

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago

In Australia we call them Seppos.

Yank > Septic Tank > Seppo.

It also works in that they’re both full of shit.

[-] parody@lemmings.world 3 points 3 months ago

USA has a horrible history of genocide and disruption and imperialism and all that of course—still have found “AmeriKKKa” to be cringe for some reason IDK why

Maybe cuz folks who’ve used it haven’t been eloquent or something? Seriously not sure here, again USA has committed countless crimes and def has Ku Klux Klan in its history