Post 438879 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
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(DIR) Post #437882 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-08T23:15:57Z
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whenever I think of American exceptionalism I think of this excellent essay by Helene Schouten"Unacceptable"https://medium.com/@scaryh/unacceptable-4cdca86ba0dbthis was linked to me by someone here I believe and it is worth a read for both Americans and non-Americans alike
(DIR) Post #438489 by h3xtacy@hex.bz
2018-10-08T23:59:02Z
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@staticsafe i have opinions about this being written by a Dutch person, considering Holland is super fucking racist and i feel like the Dutch are throwing stones from glass houses when accusing Americans of not seeing people outside their borders and Real People
(DIR) Post #438877 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-09T00:11:33Z
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when I was a kid living in the UAE, my only real exposure to America(ns) was via what I could rent at the local movie rental place (remember those?)so what I got was fairy tales (sup Disney?) and visions of an idealised America that never existed (hey that sounds like propaganda!)then when I moved to Canada and got access to the internet, the reality of America started to present itself via the Americans I talked to online
(DIR) Post #438878 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-09T00:22:50Z
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to this very day, living so very close to the USA yet so far, I continue to be presented with a reality that is ridiculous and American friends who continue to be oppressed in various waysand now more than ever, American exceptionalism continues to frustrate me people who continue to defend the very inhumanity they suffer everyday..its too much sometimes
(DIR) Post #438879 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-09T00:26:36Z
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but what I've also seen on the internet is Americans fighting for a better world for themselves and others and maybe just maybe there is some hopegotta hold on to that for whatever its worthwhew, almost fell into the pit there
(DIR) Post #438880 by amphetamine@social.wxcafe.net
2018-10-09T00:29:45Z
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@staticsafe good because you might have to fight your own adopted government if they pull more shit like they did at Halifax: https://nationalpost.com/news/none-is-too-many-memorial-for-jews-turned-away-from-canada
(DIR) Post #438899 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-09T00:31:25Z
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@amphetamine yep and residential schools and the rest of the colonialist BS
(DIR) Post #438936 by staticsafe@mastodon.zombocloud.com
2018-10-09T00:34:17Z
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for the rest of us, we need to be vigilant in our own societies, what is happening in America is in some places only an election away from happening and in some places already happeningno time to be complacent