George Washington University encampment...
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I think if you are privileged enough to grow up in America, and you hate America, there is something wrong with you. Yeah Unger people these days don't just criticize America... They actively hate it without recognizing the privilege they have. It seems to be a failure of education and their own sense of worth. We live in one of the most free nations in the world. One of the safest. One that gives the most opportunity. But they get caught up in echo chambers that promote failed economic systems. It's really frustrating to observe.
We live in one of the most free nations in the world
Students are catching facefuls of mace and rubber bullets for protesting, right now, btw. That activity protected by the 1st amendment. But freedom or whatever, yeah. We have so many freedoms, just don't try to use them, or we'll send the armor-clad thugs after you!
be america
destabilize other nations
overthrow democratically elected peoples
invade other countries
cause death, destruction, and chaos
more recently support a genocide
pickachu surprised face when people hate me
pickachu surprised face when my own populace learns about the atrocities I committed and is disgusted by it
Yes, we Americans are privileged, but whats wrong with being critical of our role and trying to change it? In the case of these students they are trying to do just that.
Quite the claims you've made: "Freedom" is difficult to quantify, but I would argue that as an individual we do typically have a decent standard of liberties. As long as you're white, male and haven't ever committed any sort of crime.
"One of the safest", according to multiple safety ranking organizations, the US is on the higher half of crime rate (per capita) and typically ranks in the bottom half (89) in safety ratings. https://www.numbeo.com/crime/rankings_by_country.jsp
"Gives the most opportunity" I think this depends largely on what you consider opportunity. If we look at poverty rates, the US is also not near the top with about an 18% poverty rate. I would consider anything more than 0% to be a place that does not provide the most opportunity. Sure, not everyone is willing to do what they need to get out of poverty, but certainly very few in that group are voluntarily there. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-rate-by-country
I do agree that Lemmy is very much an echo chamber of "capitalism bad", but the US is also quite extreme in terms of wage and wealth disparity. It's hard to believe your country is great when 10% of the population holds nearly 67% of the nation's wealth, and the bottom 50% holds only 2.5% of it. That's extremely polarized. https://www.stlouisfed.org/institute-for-economic-equity/the-state-of-us-wealth-inequality
I think if you are privileged enough to grow up in America, and you hate America, there is something wrong with you.
Do you have any more quotes from people complaining about the civil rights movement?