A discussion today reminded me of the one-word term for believers in the #USA as a #democracy and/or a land of #freedom.
The word is #racist.
Those 2 claims can be applied without severe qualification only by excluding the experiences of #NativeAmerican and #AfricanAmerican people.
The #US was built on slavery and genocide. It remained an #apartheid state until at least the 1960s.
Calling that "freedom" and "democracy" is racism. But most Americans are propagandised into #denial.
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President Donald Trump is pushing back against claims by the director of the National Counterterrorism Center about the motivations for the Iran war. In announcing his resignation Tuesday, Joe Kent claimed Iran “posed no imminent threat" to the United States. Trump says Iran is a “tremendous threat." Kent also says it's clear the U.S. started the war “due to pressure from Israel.” The Republican president previously has denied Israel forced the U.S. to act. Kent is a former Washington state political candidate with connections to right-wing extremists. As head of the National Counterterrorism Center, Kent was in charge of an agency tasked with analyzing and detecting terrorist threats.
Claire McNab
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