"Anti-Americanism" - a failure of the imagination

From the documentary "We". Available in full at OneBigTorrent[dot]org.

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News & Politics

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• antiamerican
• antiamericanism
• america
• india
• politics
• nationalism
• anarchism
• libertarian

[mrbriscoe2001]

The speaker misses the pont;one can always disagree with U.S. policy;but there's more goingon;there's a demonization that's just bizarre when you consider what kind of a world we'd live if the Axis had won WW2;or if the Soviet Union had won the Cold War;a historical amnesia;the U.S. doesn't expect slavish obedience;but Americans being stereotyped as ignorant,fat,culture-less ,violent,people;our motives always being indicted;that's Anti-Americanism and it's suicide for the West and the world.

[comradepinko]

I'm pretty sure a major war between the USA, Russia, and China would result in far more loss of life and property than any amount of terrorism.

I'll just assume you were kidding and refrain from considering you a moron.

[tripleheshy]

Go back to your morbidly overpopulated open sewer you call India you cunt and live in the 18th century. Pretty amusing coming from an Brahman who lives in the most opressive social structure on earth known as the Caste System. North Korea look appealing by comparison. Half the country is starving and there are literally cows lying in the streets. Idiots, the lot of them.

[AncientSusquehanna]

@starstuff living on the East Coast near NY is hellish because NYC & the surrounding areas are completely overrun with uneducated ethnocentrists from the 3rd world.Apparently we have no standards for who is allowed to enter this country.I don't think we do enough to shut those kind of people down here.They are very often applauded & regarded as sages by ignorant East Coasters because anti-Americanism is part of the curriculum in US schools, especially here.It's also pushed by the media.

[AncientSusquehanna]

"The American establishment"? What is she talking about?What establishment?She's using outdated,meaningless hippie jargon.India needs to worry about the poverty of its own public,Muslim terrorism & the epidemic of AIDS that will very soon bring the country to it's knees if it continues to be ignored & denied by the government & public.India shouldn't waste it's time on discussing what the US might be doing wrong.They should be trying to catch up to our standard of living & medical practices.

[starstuff]

What's even more disturbing is the consistency in this Anti-American behavior. In New York when people from other countries try and tell us why they think they're better than us we shut them down immediately. We have zero patience for the insecurities they try to conceal with their verbal rage. The expressions on their faces are priceless when you put them in their place. Pure devastation.

[MaoiMeowi2]

@mrbriscoe2001 It's quite obvious that you are either unwilling or unable to understand what I'm saying. Therefore, I will leave you with this (even though I don't agree with it): You're right, I'm wrong. Everyone who doesn't agree with democracy and America should be shot (that is, after all, what you're saying). Democracy is the best, as long as people agree with 'Maricuh.

[MaoiMeowi2]

@mrbriscoe2001 Of course you don't. Google "NATO bombings of Kosovo". NATO had no reason to bomb the city.

Mass killings and rapes? Like in Iraq and Afghanistan? Vietnam?

Well, I'm sure an actual definition would do a better job than people participating in some undefined term.

[MaoiMeowi2]

@mrbriscoe2001 Yes I have. You've ignored it. You, however, haven't. 'People wanted to defect! US R WINNAR!' People always want what they don't have. You, for example, want freedom from the government, correct? However, once you'd get that, people would start doing others harm.

They were safe. As bad as it may sound, if the US government more closely monitored domestic environments, those places would have less crime. Either way, people are always going to have some problems.

[MaoiMeowi2]

@mrbriscoe2001 The only truly free people in this country are the rich. The only free people in any society are the ones with more power. Whether it's fear or money, people are always going to be more free than others. In ideal Communism, that wouldn't be so, although that won't happen for a while.

[mrbriscoe2001]

@MaoiMeowi2 I don't want a single American dying for a starving Somali,or a Muslim in the Balklands;Europeans are ALWAYS slaughtering each other;but the same people who complain about US intervention criticize iwhen the US doesn't also;there's been criticism of US NONINTERVENTION in Rawanda,Burma,Sudan,North Korea,etc.. it's just a game ...

[mrbriscoe2001]

@mrbriscoe2001 2)The countries of the Eastern Bloc had "governments so lenient that they had to follow their citizens overseas to stop them from defecting..and so lenient the governments fell like dominoes as soon as it was politically possible 3)because the US' history is less than 100% pure,,it has no moral standing to intervene anywhere;I might agree on the 3d;but,unfortunately and frequently,interest groups demand military intervention;and,because of logistics,the majority are US troops.