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fandomsecrets2014-04-23 06:53 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2668 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2668 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[shingeki no kyojin]
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[Disney's Gargoyles]
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[Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight]
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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]
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[Elementary]
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[Frankie Boyle]
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[professional wrestling]
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[Game of Thrones]
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[Chronicles of Narnia/The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]
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[Avengers]
Notes:
Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 000 secrets from Secret Submission Post #381.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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(Anonymous) 2014-04-24 01:04 am (UTC)(link)http://www.freebord.com/wp-content/uploads/American_Eagle__Flag.jpg
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(Anonymous) 2014-04-24 06:01 am (UTC)(link)Quite deluding yourselves. I'm far freer as a European than you are.
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(Anonymous) 2014-04-24 02:45 pm (UTC)(link)b) While there is, unfortunately, some truth to all of that, it varies greatly by region. I grew up in a part of the US that was so liberal that it was shocking to me when I started to come across people who were racist, pro-life, anti-gay, and radically Christian, and I couldn't understand why there was such opposition to same-sex marriage (my state legalized same-sex marriage fairly early. When compared to European countries, it was behind only the Netherlands and Belgium. It was nearly a decade ahead of the UK). My primary school's treatment of Marx was "he actually had a point;" its treatment of Islam was "it's a vibrant religion with a rich history;" and its treatment of American history was "we've done some fucked up shit and our government likes to lie about it." The importance of separation of church and state was also drilled into us, with the Scopes trial being used as an object lesson (briefly: a number of states in the '20s banned the teaching of evolution. John Scopes continued to teach it, and he was asked if he would be willing to go to court to defend it. He agreed. He was found guilty, but that was the point: they wanted it to go to the state Supreme Court so that the law could be overturned). I and most of my friends had ceased to be Christian by the time we'd hit our teens.
In contrast... My husband came from the South, so I've been down there to visit family. One reaches a point where, suddenly, normal billboards give way to Jesus- and Bible-oriented weirdness, and giant crosses start showing up on the side of the road. There was a time when we went mini-golfing, and the course was owned by some religious group, and at each hole there was a Bible verse on a placard. That would never have flown where I grew up. It freaked me right the fuck out.
The trouble with the US is that a) individual states have rather wide latitude to pass their own laws; and b) we really are six or seven different countries (as delineated by region) trying to get on with one another and doing a very poor job of it.
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(Anonymous) 2014-04-24 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)I'm beyond glad that sanity and tolerance has a good foothold in some places in the States - may it spread. I know we aren't perfect - socially at least - but our laws are at least pretty solid in equality and they apply nationally, for which I am eternally grateful.
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