It's fashionable among certain segments of the population to bash America whenever they can. It's almost pathological. Any time something negative is mentioned

It's fashionable among certain segments of the population to bash America whenever they can. It's almost pathological. Any time something negative is mentioned about something happening outside the US, there is an inevitable deluge of "well yeah but really bad stuff happens in America too!" comments. I feel that most people doing this subconsciously feel like they're acting as a counterweight to the ultra patriotism of other segments of the population, but in acting as such a counterweight they appear as absurd as their ideological opponents. Both sides annoy me for the same reason: they are blind to reality.