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The United States (Government) are a bunch of unenlightened, racist, xenophobic people bent on oppressing people by treating every non english/anglo-saxon as a

The United States (Government) are a bunch of unenlightened, racist, xenophobic people bent on oppressing people by treating every non english/anglo-saxon as a terrorist. Please, someone tell me this isn't the case in an absolute sense.

jgalt212 13y ago
oh, Hi Noam Chomsky.
- jgalt212 13y ago
  I lose points every time I criticize Noam Chomsky. Who are the other sacred cows on HN that if you criticize you automatically lose Karma? I'll take a stab: Noam Chomsky Paul Graham Elon Musk Jeff Bezos
  - cynest 13y ago
    That wasn't a criticism. It was a short, sarcastic jeer with poor grammar.
    - jgalt212 13y ago
      and what tokenizer screamed from what was presumably his Mom's basement between sessions of WoW was additive to the conversation?
  - lukifer 13y ago
    Maybe the people who criticize Noam Chomsky should actually listen to what he says first. He condemns America more than other regimes who also abuse power because he considers it the moral responsibility of every citizen to correct their own nation's behavior first, taking the principle straight from the Bible: "Remove the speck from your own eye." Condemn Chomsky's anarcho-socialist ideals if you like: he actually has those. But calling him an America-hater both misunderstands his views and demonstrates his point about nationalism trumping democracy.
theg2 13y ago
It's not, its a government of people and people have varying opinions, both correct and incorrect that drive their actions.
wyclif 13y ago
Eh, I think it's a tad more complex than that. The US is a heterogeneous culture with lots of people of varying cultures, religions, and skin tones. Though I'm certainly no fan of the TSA, and wish the US gov't would reform the system in a direction more like Israel's, they actually aren't treating every non-white person as a suspected terrorist.
liquidise 13y ago
Overly generic and condemning criticism about a group of people whom you are angry at for making overly generic and condemning criticisms about groups of people!! 9.5 / 10

jgalt212 13y ago

oh, Hi Noam Chomsky.

jgalt212 13y ago
I lose points every time I criticize Noam Chomsky. Who are the other sacred cows on HN that if you criticize you automatically lose Karma? I'll take a stab: Noam Chomsky Paul Graham Elon Musk Jeff Bezos
- cynest 13y ago
  That wasn't a criticism. It was a short, sarcastic jeer with poor grammar.
  - jgalt212 13y ago
    and what tokenizer screamed from what was presumably his Mom's basement between sessions of WoW was additive to the conversation?
- lukifer 13y ago
  Maybe the people who criticize Noam Chomsky should actually listen to what he says first. He condemns America more than other regimes who also abuse power because he considers it the moral responsibility of every citizen to correct their own nation's behavior first, taking the principle straight from the Bible: "Remove the speck from your own eye." Condemn Chomsky's anarcho-socialist ideals if you like: he actually has those. But calling him an America-hater both misunderstands his views and demonstrates his point about nationalism trumping democracy.

theg2 13y ago

It's not, its a government of people and people have varying opinions, both correct and incorrect that drive their actions.

wyclif 13y ago

Eh, I think it's a tad more complex than that. The US is a heterogeneous culture with lots of people of varying cultures, religions, and skin tones. Though I'm certainly no fan of the TSA, and wish the US gov't would reform the system in a direction more like Israel's, they actually aren't treating every non-white person as a suspected terrorist.

liquidise 13y ago

Overly generic and condemning criticism about a group of people whom you are angry at for making overly generic and condemning criticisms about groups of people!! 9.5 / 10