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> Aren't individual freedoms and not having having to bend to communal norms core tenants of being American? I suppose you harbor similarly negative feelings t

• AlecSchueler 2y ago
  Could you quote the parts of my comment where you felt my "negative feelings" were implied? I'm a European and a socialist watching this from outside. The idea of putting individual freedom above the common good is not one that I necessarily agree with, it's just one that I understood as being essential to the American experience, hence my question and surprise. My point in essence is that I feel like this particular policy comes more from a desire to make life harder for those people who live non-normative linguistic lifestyles rather than to foster strength of community as was implied above. I'm all for community but I also believe in supporting diversity between communities as well as within communities. Hopefully that makes my feelings about the civil rights movement &c. clear to you.
  • lurk2 2y ago
    > I'm all for community but I also believe in supporting diversity within communities as well as between communities. A community is shared. You can't have a community if you can't communicate with your neighbor.