When I see these American utopian delusion, through media or discourse, I get a strange vibe. It’s not negative, it’s not like when I learn about the reality of daily life of workers in the US that gets my blood boiling. Instead I experience some kind of nostalgia
I wish it was real I think. If the US were exactly what they claim to be, life would be so much easier.
Even if they were what they claimed to be, it’d still be a genocidal colonial state 🤷🏿♂️
Yeah sure… even if the watered down version of History taught in Florida was real, still problematic
Part of me misses the time before the cracks really started to show, back when maybe the problem was just me
It’s not you, a lot of western MLs were liberals before. I remember the Obama years, I remember how naive I was, I genuinely thought that the US was leading the way against racism and inequality. In my defense I’m European so I had no first hand experience of the country and the media were creaming themselves with Obama juice. Also I was 11 years old lol.
They’re actually still pulling the “everyone is equal in America™”? After how they treated the Natives and their Black citizens?
Yep. And they still trot out “America is a classless society” from time to time as well.
Oh, really? Maybe we should point out that a real classless society is actually a Communist society :)
Believe it or not, this was actually a line in the 50s and 60s – Nixon and others claiming that the US actually embodied the Marxist idea of “common ownership” much better than the USSR (because of employee joint-stock programs or something)
That’s crazy
US ideology is all kinds of strange.
But everyone is equal in America: No matter how stupid you are, what qualifications you lack, what dangers you pose to your environment, or how many conflicts of interest you accumulate, with enough money you can do anything!
and they’re still being treated horribly
Those aren’t “Actual Americans” to them though, they are “African-Americans” or “American Indians,” and the other Americans from the rest of the continent are just “Latinx”. Can’t have them thinking they belong in the continent, let alone the country.
Their “greatest honour” is no longer having to worry (too much) about getting nabbed by ICE. That’s for special people only, the best of the best!
Who are the ICE?
They’re the
Immigrant Control ExterminatorsImmigration Customs Enforcement, a Nazi-like government police with a different name, that go around kidnapping visa-less immigrants and putting them in the privatised detention centers, separating families, which rather than deporting them, force them into prison slavery. BTW, since Joe Biden got elected, the number of prisoners has only gone up, to near a million. Just writing that out actually hurt my brain, it’s weird to think we already know all these things about the USA but don’t connect the dots unless specifically addressing it.
Wow, Mr President Biden personally writes a letter to every new citizen of the USA? No wonder he’s always too busy to get around to doing all of his campaign promises! Not to mention why he’s so sleepy all the time, he probably has to spend all night writing these letters!
The idea of America is that everyone is created equal and deserves to be treated equally and that we are forever a Nation of possibilities.
If you search “anti-[any nationality] sentiment” in wikipedia there is a high chance that the USA is listed between the countries where such existed, with many cases including federal laws and executive orders from the government of the USA itself aimed against them. Who in their right mind can take a look at the history of how the US has treated any people coming from abroad and still believe it to be “the land of opportunity”?
Plenty of opportunities if you are rich enough. Just look at the opportunities the son of an emerald mine owner from South Africa can get!
