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Most nations are built on genocide, it's an unfortunate part of human nature to be cruel to those not like your group.I mean the last hundred years alone, the of Cossacks if Crimea, the holocaust, Kaiser run Germany committed one before WW2, Ottomans genocide Armenia, China is actively engaged in one now, as well as Israels current actions in Gaza, and that's just off the top of my head, but somehow only the USA is built on it. You ignore the skeletons in your own foundations and dishonor yourself and their deaths by doing so
I'm honestly not sure what point you're trying to make.
The USA was built the same way all nations were, by subjugation and eradication but we are one of the few looked down on for it and outright called irredeemable for it
Oh! Lookie here, a fascist for breakfast. My day is off to a lovely start.
The difference is in the history. America has NEVER been honest about its origins. No other modern nation was built on slavery like we were. Britain abolished it decades before America. And after WWII, they gave up the rest of their colonies because it was the right thing to do. That's when the American Empire took off. Naval bases in every country. Global watchdog, above the laws everyone else has to follow.
America? It only stopped genociding Indians when they were such a small population that they couldn't pose a threat to the white man, and it still fucks them over every chance it can. Edit: oh yeah, and then it painted them as villains in cowboy movies for half a century. Nice.
Racism is so deeply embedded in America that the simple claim that black lives matter turned into a controversy. You know what a normal nation would've done? Examine their police. Us? We said fuck those people, let the racist cops do whatever they want. Do you have any clue what it's like to raise a black son in America? I'm white myself so I can't speak firsthand, but I have talked to numerous people who've told me about "the Talk". You know about this? It's not the birds and the bees, it's about how to behave around cops so they don't kill you. How insanely fucked up does your country have to be for that??
This is called honesty. Progress can't be made without it.
I've made it my life's work to fight white supremacy in the blue collar South and I'll fucking devour you whole.