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“Americans bad…very bad…Bad boys. All of ‘em…just all of them are the same…surprisingly this totally doesn’t reflect my own beliefs in any way….”
you're a child, just like all Americans.. you want an excuse for your lack of dignity.. your absolute inability to even conceive of it..
It takes a special lack of awareness to make these kinds of sweeping prejudiced statements against a group of people on a post about racism.
your attempts to avoid the reality and excuse yourself are predictable, and limited to the realm of social media.. you are social media beings.. dignity is something you must aspire to, and then express.. you can't demand it out of fairness..
I’m not commenting to support your approach to this, but your comment about dignity hit home for me. I’m an American who recently traveled to Scandinavia for the first time. There is something wholly different about the feel of the culture over there, even in mundane everyday details. I was seeing levels of dignity and respect (for self as well as others) that I am NOT used to here.
Over here I’m used to pride, competition, and indifference to the plight of others.
Over there I observed dignity, cooperation, and well, dignity.
Careful, your xenophobia is showing.
it's not possible to be xenophobic about Americans, they have no character.. if you dislike Americans, it's because you dislike blandness, not that you're afraid of something you don't understand..
That's kinda like saying you can't be racist against white people. You're disparaging over 330 million people based on your hateful prejudices.
see, you dodge the actual point, by claiming you're being oppressed in some way.. you're all the same brand of coward..
i say you are incapable of dignity, and you respond with whining.. who is winning the argument..
You really need to work on that reading comprehension, buddy. It's not whining to call someone a hateful bigot. Because, you are a hateful bigot.
He.... does have a point. I haven't really seen anyone attack his premises, only the way he's presented them. Our shanty towns grow larger and more numerous by the day it seems, along with injustices like that mentioned in the article. There are 330 million of us and we're kinda letting this happen.
That said.... psh. We could still kick his ass?
He's not, though. He's asserting that the actions of our government reflect the will of the people, and that hasn't been true for a very long time.
America has a stupid amount of different cultures that influence the country, so saying we have no culture and don't value human life is inaccurate.
So, the core of his argument is clearly just a troll's attempt to get a rise out of everyone and I don't really want to engage any further with it because I have places to be today.
But what's been bothering me lately is that many of us, myself included, are acting like these are things that are happening to us, as if we have no agency in the matter. Perhaps, at this point, we don't. If the government isn't addressing our wishes, why aren't we fielding and voting for candidates that will?
We really don't have any agency. The federal government is set up so we're stuck with elected officials until their time is up with no democratic way of removing them from office.
The main problem is that the people who have the highest voter turnout are retirees whose brains are fucked from years of lead poisoning, and these same old fucks are also running the country.
I mean, hell, just look at the 2016 election. The person with the most votes lost. That's proof that the will of the people isn't being honored even at the highest levels of government.
i'll have an order of tentative acknowledgement, with an ice cold glass of complaining about the tone of honesty, and a slice of bravado for dessert
Aren't you just adorable? : )
i'm gonna let you know when i need your opinion on that, sweetheart.. but i appreciate it.. i surely do.. coming from your sweet ass..
but you are entirely correct if it seems like i'm not competing for this year's Sweetheart Ribbon at the County Fair
you try to shield yourself from all truth with claims of oppression or unfairness.. it's cowardly..
No, I'm just attempting to point out that you're being a bigoted asshole. It's no different than saying all Italians are spaghetti eating mobsters.
You're trying to disparage an entire population based on a rather bizarre and totally inaccurate preconceived notion.
you wish
Alright, what are you basing your claims on? You're clearly not from the US, and I'd bet money you've never visited or even spoken at length in person to an American citizen.
Does your paintbrush extend to the incarcerated black Americans who are victims of the policies observed by the UN, or do you mean a specific subset of Americans when you say these things?
yeah well, ask those guys how American they feel, and then come back at me
I can't ask all of them, so I asked one, and he said that he's no less American because he's in jail.
So back to my question?