I'm aghast with you.
I was raised by Silent Generation parents who were all "character matters!" and "family values!!" back in the 90s, but now they're okay with promiscuous liars (and nazis too, apparently) as long as the billionaires get tax breaks and the immigrants get deported.
Honestly, I think it's because we are losing the "Greatest Generation" right now. They were the vets traumatized by what they saw and who they fought. My grandfathers wouldn't have stood to hear any of this, and their kids respected that while they lived. But they are gone now & Fox News is here.
And we all know branding is a bit fake, that it's usually aspirational rather than actual, and the authoritarianism lurked, and the racism and misogyny and all the other hate were always there, but at least they used to be actively labelled in the branding as villainous traits.
Bizarre part is, that’s still mostly true. In fact, to be called racist, misogynist, or fascist is so bad the label became more offensive than the actual actions.
Because how dare you use one of those words to describe good person, or even just their actions.
Don’t you know those words are bad? 🙃
But that has never been true. We were not anti-nazi. We were proto-nazi. The nazis learned how to be evil from us. After we beat the fascists (because they attacked us, not for ideological reasons) we lifted them to positions of power. We fought FOR nazis in the Global South for decades.
Saying America was “proto-Nazi” kind of ignores the fact that American racism and genocide are European imports. It’s all European philosophy going back millennia. There was nothing new or aberrant about trans Atlantic slavery or nazism from a European cultural perspective. Totally organic outgrowth
That was just the marketing copy. We became the cop of the whole world to claim resources, sell weapons & remove any government that didn't give us the resources demanded. America has been a global racketeering operation for over a century. We only worship money and "winning".
absolutely shook at how many people seem to be taking this as an endorsement of cops, branding schemes, or America’s entirely inaccurate perception of itself
It’s wild that they let go of “Russia is the enemy” and “nazis are bad” but kept the racism against black and brown people and desire for women to have fewer rights than men.
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I was raised by Silent Generation parents who were all "character matters!" and "family values!!" back in the 90s, but now they're okay with promiscuous liars (and nazis too, apparently) as long as the billionaires get tax breaks and the immigrants get deported.
Their categorical greatness is debatable.
one tyrant does a full-on Nazi salute and everyone in the media is like “mmm, but did he, though 🤔”
the other is like “I’m a king. you know, that thing we famously are very against”, and it’s just 🤷♂️
https://fox59.com/news/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-punched-in-the-face-during-interview/amp/
https://youtu.be/HMQ6A9afjYk?si=Z0GJ6IGrsdGtF6QW
that was our whole deal!!!
Because how dare you use one of those words to describe good person, or even just their actions.
Don’t you know those words are bad? 🙃
you guys are wild
But does our history support it?
Unfortunately, I think that many people in this country are just feeling empowered to be who they always were in private.
Stay strong out there, everybody
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