As I told you in the previous post, police in Ferguson, MO shot an unarmed black kid, an 18-year-old high school graduate about to start college. The residents of the area are rioting in protest over this horrible crime.
What would you think of me if I told you that the residents of Ferguson are rioting because Putin bribed them to do so? Putin is extremely interested in destabilizing the situation in the United States and making the world see Americans as hypocritical, out-of-control thugs, so he sent his agents to bribe and talk St. Louisans into rioting. How would you feel if I offered you this story?
You’d think I’m an unhinged freak whose poor excuse for a brain has been consumed by her diseased patriotism to the point where there is nothing left, wouldn’t you?
And you’d be right.
However, it is perfectly acceptable for American Lefties to do this every day to wide popular acclaim. Their diseased patriotism is so out of control that they come up with these insane scenarios every day and it doesn’t seem to bother anybody.
Last winter, police in Ukraine started shooting at unarmed kids, students who are just like Ferguson’s Mike Brown. They were not breaking any law, they were just protesting some minor issue nobody remembers any longer. They have a constitutionally protected right to congregate peacefully in the streets. You’ll be shocked, but other countries also have constitutions, imagine that. And now prepare for the greatest shock of all: these animal-like creatures who just climbed down from their pine-trees three days ago are actually proud of their constitutional rights. Wild, I know!
So when Ukrainians – the descendants of slaves who were kept in artificially created poverty and denied their basic rights for as long as they can remember, who saw their activists murdered, tortured and have their heads cut off by the government, who have been persecuted by the corrupt, vicious police for decades – took to the streets and rioted to protest the murder by the government of unarmed kids, students, for some curious reason American and Canadian Lefties simply cannot accept that this is possible.
Every day, I read some self-aggrandizing, deeply offensive shit like the following:
Russia let us run until we came up to their borders in Ukraine. Then came the 2014 Ukraine coup. We don’t know the degree of western involvement. We seldom do in such things, until years or decades later (only last year did the CIA admit its role in the 1953 Iran Coup). However, it fits the pattern of past coups run with assistance of the UK’s SIS and US CIA. Then the new friendly government is invited into NATO.
For these pseudo-Lefties, people who don’t speak the same language as they do and, most importantly, don’t carry the same deified passport as they do are subhuman. They worship at the altar of their passports, driving themselves into such a frenzy that they can’t recognize the basic humanity of anybody else.
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Goos post. Recently I also received comments about a political issue to the equivalent of “we need to know how much Western involvement there was in this atrocity before we can make a comment of any sort.”
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Are you familiar with the idea of Americanism as a religion? I can’t find the exact reference I want in google but the idea is that the main religion in America is actually a set of beliefs about human nature and a particular historical mission for America vis a vis the rest of the world. It’s kind of a covert, syncretic religion that can hide behind the trappings of another (though any religion that doesn’t amend its theory and practice to not contradict Americanism is marginalized out of the public arena).
It even has holy texts (esp the declaration of independence and the constitution). Within this metaphor immigrants are converts, accepted when they practice Americanism and rejected when they don’t).
Even those that reject Americanism tend to do so by taking a mirror image version in which America is not just another country (with some particular strengths and enduring weaknesses) but a uniquely powerful (though malignant) presence capable of far more than other mere countries.
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// Are you familiar with the idea of Americanism as a religion?
Then every nationalism can be seen as religion.
I heard about Nazism and Communism as religions, but it may be since people are ready to see in extreme cases what they refuse to see in their own (diluted in comparison) version.
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No, it’s not nationalism in the classic sense (in being about a specific people tied by geography genetics and language/culture).
There’s an element of “we’ve found the answer! and you can too! join us!” which is absent from other types of nationalism I’ve come across.
IME Americans often disike the idea that there is such a thing as American culture (in the ethnographic sense). Culture is something other countries have and it holds them back. In this tradition if you remove material and historical impediments people wil naturally gravitate to the American way of life.
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