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I find the statement "the rest of the world makes fun of Americans for" to be a bit disingenuous. For one thing, the world is a very big place, and the alleged
by holler 7y ago
I find the statement "the rest of the world makes fun of Americans for" to be a bit disingenuous. For one thing, the world is a very big place, and the alleged people making fun of the U.S. are no doubt a part of a certain demographic, who's views align with a certain demographic within the United States. That demographic is one of many demographics in both the US and elsewhere, and thus, it feels very intellectually dishonest to generalize that an entire world population of 8Billion+ "makes fun" of any one thing.
A better statement would be: "... that the rest of the [insert demographic] of the World make fun of Americans for"
- sagichmal 7y agoLiterally everyone who isn't an American libertarian makes fun of American libertarians. For good reason.
- uoaei 7y agoThis is the kind of nitpicking pedantry that the rest of the internet makes fun of HNers for.
- CompanionCuuube 7y agoReducing it to "nitpicking" is fundamentally misunderstanding the content of the comment, and goes to show the truth of the criticism regarding the myopic nature of the perspective you are peddling.
- uoaei 7y agoThe entirety of the point that was made is "people are different and have different opinions" which is a retort to a clumsily-framed statement serving primarily as rhetoric and not fact. Shooting semantic fish in the rhetorical barrel is what makes people "no fun at parties" and something that has become a stereotype -- no, a meme -- on HN.
- CompanionCuuube 7y ago> The entirety of the point that was made is "people are different and have different opinions" That is only a superficial understanding. What you left out is the manipulative hubris of your clumsy rhetoric pretending to command some kind of hegemony of opinion. It is no surprise to see a continuation of that in the further comments.