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Perhaps, but at the same time I have never met such self-hating people as urban Americans post-2016. The exceptionalism might be the degree of freedom it allow
by tenpies 7y ago
Perhaps, but at the same time I have never met such self-hating people as urban Americans post-2016.
The exceptionalism might be the degree of freedom it allows in thoughts about their own Americanism, and the seeming ability to believe both ends of the spectrum at the same time.
- jbay808 7y agoThey don't hate themselves, they hate their non-like-minded compatriots. Just like when one sees a big pickup truck festooned with american flags and the pledge of allegiance plastered across the rear window, it's not to express their sheer joy in being American, but to admonish their non-like-minded compatriots for being insufficiently 'American'.
- kelnos 7y agoI don't hate myself; I hate the series of events and conditions that has turned the US into a severely-divided nation where half of the country has been brainwashed into voting for people who believe that rights and empathy and power should only be granted to straight cis-gendered white people and/or "true Americans", for whatever arbitrary definition of that they've decided on in a given week.