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Oh please. Yes, some people in the US are hypersensitive to kinds of racism in a manner that tends to be less common in Europe. But Europe has its own issues
by Goladus 17y ago
Oh please. Yes, some people in the US are hypersensitive to kinds of racism in a manner that tends to be less common in Europe. But Europe has its own issues and claiming it's some example of "what's wrong with the US these days" is just silly.
How sensitive are Poles to anti-semitism? There are almost no Jews in Poland because those that survived the Holocaust were driven out (sometimes violently) in the decades following WW2. This was the same time when Blacks in the US fought for and won their civil rights, incidentally. So the US has some thorny problems that aren't fully resolved that Poland doesn't have.
- jwr 17y agoI didn't say Europe doesn't have its own issues -- my point was that the US seems to be trying to ignore race while being obsessed about it. That doesn't work.
- Goladus 17y agoWhen you are observing about 300 million people as a single abstract entity you are almost certain to find contradictory behavior.