Mastodawn

Dear USA,

Donald Trump is exactly who you are.

Donald Trump is simply the #noFilter USA the rest of the world was forced to become intimately familiar with long ago; one dropped bomb and one lost family member at a time. The same USA Native Americans and African Americans have always known.

Until you fully grasp that and start learning about, accepting responsibility for, and atoning for how your country came to be and for your crimes throughout history both at home and abroad, this is what you will remain.

“This is not who we are.”

Bullshit.

This is exactly who you are and who you’ve always been.

You want to change?

Start by accepting that.

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Coleen Walter Mar 14

@aral I understand your point and share your outrage and frustration. I do feel some of your comments include the fallacy of division. There are many, at great personal and financial cost, fighting book bans, protesting, investigative journalism, standing up for themselves and other vulnerable people. I don’t know whether we are a plutocracy or an oligarchy but individuals are trying to act like sea wall to push back against relentless money and power.

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Gamal Sherif Mar 14

@coleenwalter @aral And jazz, for which I lovingly thank my Irish and African folk.

Shall we blanket-vilify Germans for nazi Germany, British for empire, Portuguese for enslaving and trading people? Israelis for ethnocide?

Supremacy culture is a global phenomenon that hypes [anti-] nationalist accusations - as well as racist, classist, sexist instabilities - to keep us separated.

It’s a global oligarchy that colludes at the expense of peoples’ lives.

Solidarity, on the other hand, is a more nuanced antidote to sleepiness of binary thinking. #onelove .

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Aral Balkan

@gdsherif @coleenwalter > Shall we blanket-vilify Germans for nazi Germany, British for empire, Portuguese for enslaving and trading people? Israelis for ethnocide?

The ones who do not acknowledge, fail to atone for, continue to benefit from, and continue to inflict such damage?

Yes.

The others? They’re rarely the ones offended by criticism of nations.