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This, but unironically.
I will never understand how the United States, formerly supposedly the greatest democracy in the world (yea yeah, I know) is so eager to cede patriotism to the scummiest racists and lowlifes.
Punching Nazis is American. Welcoming immigrants with open arms is American. Fuck those inbred bastards who use the flag as a symbol of hate.
What mattered was that the US was moving forwards and not backwards. We were building a more inclusive America for all.
That’s no longer the case.
Before or after manifesting their destiny over half the continent?
I’m strictly speaking about self-perception here.
We all know the many sins of the USA.
How I wish that were true.
Sadly so is being anti-immigrant. The Alien and Sedition Acts were created less than fifteen years after the Constitution. The Know Nothing Party was a popular anti-immigrant party in the mid 1800s. From then to the mid 1900s were, the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882), The National Origins Act (1924), Japanese Concentration Camps (WW2), Operation Wetback (1954), and those are just the big ones.
The ideals that you have for the US are noble, I hold them too. It’s amazing what the US could be if we (especially our politicians) actually held ourselves to those ideals while addressing our current problems.
Of course.
My point here is that, you can determine your own message. You can choose what to focus on. Of course, we all know what racism is as American as AR15s and Apple pie. But, as a society, it’s a choice to communicate “racism is an American value” or, something else.
It's the people at the top brainwashing and propagandizing the capitalist-enslaved class. We should start at the top and remove those un-American racist billionaires