05-30-2013, 04:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-30-2013, 05:46 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Except the U.S. doesn't exactly have a stellar record for human rights either. After all, this was a country that was founded and built upon SLAVERY, the slaughtering, exploitation, and dehumanizing of millions of indigenous peoples (but of course, these inconvenient facts are left out of our children's history textbooks, surprise surprise). Not to mention the sponsoring of dictators in other nations to strengthen western colonial rule and the expansion of international markets (who we then turn against when they decide they don't want anymore to do with us), the mass killing of innocent civilians in all the wars to propagate our cultural, military, and political hegemony, an extremely chauvinistic and racist history of oppressing women and minorities and the working class (which still goes on today) within our own borders, and the highest prison population in recorded history (and throw in guantanamo bay for good measure). All wrapped in a pretty package with labels like "democracy", "freedom", and the complete myth that is called "the American Dream" by the lords of private capital in D.C. I just get tired of brainwashed idiots saying we are the epicenter for democracy and human rights in the world. We are from it.
I hate patriotism/nationalism of any kind, but I guess I hate the American variety the most since its where I live, and see firsthand everyday. If I lived in GB, I guess I would hate British nationalism the most. As a famous Irish poet once said, "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious".
I hate patriotism/nationalism of any kind, but I guess I hate the American variety the most since its where I live, and see firsthand everyday. If I lived in GB, I guess I would hate British nationalism the most. As a famous Irish poet once said, "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious".
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)
"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)