I did read your whole comment. You stated that the country has “always been this way”, illustrated with one example, and claimed that this sums up our whole history. It doesn’t. But in our new meme-fueled standard of social discourse the world consists only of all-or-nothing Good vs Evil false dichotomies, so what’s the use.
I did read your whole comment. You stated that the country has “always been this way”, illustrated with one example, and claimed that this sums up our whole history. It doesn’t. But in our new meme-fueled standard of social discourse the world consists only of all-or-nothing Good vs Evil false dichotomies, so what’s the use.
Jim fucking Crow
Joe McCarthy
Japanese concentration camps in the USA
Kkk
Confederate plantation slave owners
George Custer’s slaughter of the Cheyenne
Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal act, and the trail of tears
Various race riots and massacres such as the many different Harlem massacres, new Orleans massacre, Tulsa massacre, first pillow massacre
And of course where it all started, The literal beginning of what would become the United States of America
Christopher god damned Columbus