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fandomsecrets2007-12-22 05:36 pm
case) wrote in fandomsecrets2007-12-22 05:36 pm
[ SECRET POST #351 ]
⌈ Secret Post #351 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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Secrets Left to Post: 12 pages, 300 secrets from Secret Submission Post #051.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 ] broken links, [ 1 ] not!secrets, [ 1 ] not!fandom, [ 1 ] too big, [ 1 ] outright says it's not a secret wtffff, [ 1 ] every possible category (???).
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And even if there weren't so many other points wrong in your 'example' of the Iraq war, I'd only respond that a) soldiers do not choose were they are deployed or what they are to do (therefore they do not 'kill Iraqis for oil'), and b) the nationality of those civilians has nothing to do with blood-for-oil. It just happens that the people living on top of the oil are Iraqi. And by the by, America doesn't have a problem fucking its own people over for oil, please see Alaska.
And how does this one person's opinion 'compound' America's so-called racism? Is that like how I am bad a math, and therefore all Americans are fucking idiots, regardless of all the brilliance to come out of this country?
Every country has good and bad points, I'm not denying it. But it's trendy to hate on America and idolise Japan without knowing anything about it, and, as someone who's studied both, I'm tired of it.
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Like I said in my original comment, no one country is perfect. People are just pointing out that America has it's own faults as much as Japan because the OP makes specific refrences to the US in the secret. It is not hard to then make the link that the OP is American. So, people are pointing out that America is just as flawed as the country they hate. If they made refrences to the UK or Australia, or some place else, same thing would happen with that country.
I do work with Defence Force and Reserve members everyday, you do not need to edumacate me about the so called War On Terror. The example I gave was as broad and open to personal opinion as the OPs reasons. Hence the use of it.
You may not realise it, but the USA does have quite a bad reputation internationally as being bigoted, homophobic, racist, stupid and war mongering. I know that that there are no more of those kind of people in the US that there are in any other country, so when I say it compounds it, I mean that, internationally, we get 'examples' of this kind of American 'ignorance' and 'arrogance' (again, this is not my opinion, just a popular one) all the time, and these kind of statements made by the OP don't help international's views of the average American.
Just like people from the UK don't sit around drinking endless cups of tea, playing cricket and making fun of the lower classes, I wouldn't go there and expect that to happen because that's what's on TV.
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(Anonymous) 2007-12-23 05:52 am (UTC)(link)You are a textbook example of the entitled hick white girl you doesn't actually understand the way the world works outside of her own privileged life, and can't wrap her mind around the idea that racism is an actual system, not a few shmucks saying that the coloreds are evil and nasty, or whatever.
Go read a book. Go study anti-racist scholars who have devoted their lives to deconstructing racism in America. Or... just continue to sit in front of your computer and tell yourself that racism barely exists in America anymore and pat yourself on the back. Whichever.
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