I try to view the liberal "this isn't us" and "wow, this is just like [other country]" as a sign of progress because it means that not only do they acknowledge it's bad, they are trying to form a national identity that explicitly rejects these values.
It's far from perfect, but it's a lot better than condoning it.
Every time someone says ICE is "unamerican" i have a little aneurism inside
ICE is as American as political violence and providing safe refuge for Nazis.
It's like the donald trump is a russian asset talk,
Because no american could do such heinous things right?
Donald trump is AMERICAN and is a reflection of america. People just can't come to terms with reality, regardless of how clearly it's spelled out for them.
American liberals spent YEARS fighting anyone who suggested racism was still alive in america. But how could it be? They elected a half black man as president?
Nevermind the indiscriminate bombings by said psychopath and the first election of trump. During bidens term, racism was dead again! Somehow!
Until those very same liberals used racism to explain kamala harris' rejection by the public. Even to this day they won't attribute racism in explaining ice's actions. In fact most didn't care how many people died at ice's hands until white people got shot in the face.
In summary, americans, and yes american liberals are deeply racist, selfish and uneducated people. Their worldview makes no sense. And they are all unfathomably, profoundly stupid.
be "European religious"
genocide the locals
depend on chattel slavery to work the now empty land
even though they do what you won't and would never do what you do, you still find them inferior somehow, less than human
same with any group that isn't too Anglo/Germanic, actually, on a colour gradient
use gunboat diplomacy and raids to keep your neighbours subservient
use racism to push for war, generation after generation, and they still eat it up
rape and pillage brown places to your heart's content
abuse, murder and incarcerate brown people back home because slavery is still legal if you're in jail
But ICE is shocking, lol. No, American hatred, amorality and self-centeredness to the point of psychopathy allowed for both.
wait. they were protesting for segregation?
Yes. Many baby boomers (and their parents) are racist as fuck. Especially in the south.
the civil rights movement has been incredibly whitewashed in US education. Americans were overwhelmingly against de-segregation, there was tons of violence against black Americans, and that violence was not solely committed by police officers.
The Klan might seem like a relic of the past now, but the KKK was incredibly powerful during the 50s and 60s, to the point where in my home state, 1/3 of men were Klansmen and were a significant political bloc. They weren't just voting in politicians that supported their vile views though, they were lynching people and burning crosses on lawns and shit.
It's so unbelievably fucked up to me that this is a surprise for you.
Racism is imbued in America's DNA. It's never easy to root out something so foundational. It takes a real hard look in the mirror and, let's be honest, when America looks at itself in the mirror it isn't for self-reflection.
Members of labor unions, and unorganized unskilled workers, will sooner or later realize that their government is not even trying to prevent wages from sinking or to prevent jobs from being exported. Around the same time, they will realize that suburban white-collar workers—themselves desperately afraid of being downsized—are not going to let themselves be taxed to provide social benefits for anyone else.
At that point, something will crack. The nonsuburban electorate will decide that the system has failed and start looking for a strongman to vote for — someone willing to assure them that, once he is elected, the smug bureaucrats, tricky lawyers, overpaid bond salesmen, and postmodernist professors will no longer be calling the shots. A scenario like that of Sinclair Lewis' novel It Can't Happen Here may then be played out. For once such a strongman takes office, nobody can predict what will happen. In 1932, most of the predictions made about what would happen if Hindenburg named Hitler chancellor were wildly overoptimistic.
One thing that is very likely to happen is that the gains made in the past 40 years by black and brown Americans, and by homosexuals, will be wiped out. Jocular contempt for women will come back into fashion. The words 'nigger' and 'kike' will once again be heard in the workplace. All the sadism which the academic left has tried to make unacceptable to its students will come flooding back. All the resentment which badly educated Americans feel about having their manners dictated to them by college graduates will find an outlet.
Achieving our Country by Richard Rorty (1998).
Imagine how embarrassing it would be to be related to anyone in this picture.
Heyyy that photo was taken a couple miles from where I am sitting. Terrifying.
When I moved here, we rented a house in an all-black neighborhood. They weren't um, super warm. In my "post-racial white savior" mentality, I'm like, this is odd, I'm trying to desegregate this place! Eventually one neighbor took the time to kindly educate me. Many of those older folks had family, grandparents and uncles, who were lynched in pubic. Many of them remember that photo being taken, most knew the Little Rock Nine personally. Their neighborhood was about safety, about a place they could be without constant worry. They reflexively did not like seeing young white folks move in. Holy shit I suddenly got it. As a gay guy I could imagine that applying to my own minority status.
I live in a gayborhood now and sure enough, as the house next door goes on the market, we're trying to make it clear conservative straight folks are not welcome.
Perspective is interesting. I keep my mouth shut and my ears open when it comes to race, cause I grew up in a literally all-white town.
That uppity bitch wearing pants at a pro-segregatuon protest. We'll fix her.
European settlers when they pretend to be distinct from Europeans:
What's crazy is in my area, most people are Cajun, the Cajuns faced so much discrimination, deportation and even an attempted genocide, and successful assimilation, Cajun French is essentially a dead language. Their Great and great great grandparents were facing discrimination for being accepting of people of color and for not speaking English. Yet due to lack of education of their own history most Cajuns don't realize they're perpetuation the very I justices their ancestors went through, hell, half there's a huge population of cajuns that are POC and don't even realize it!
