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I just don't understand Lemmy's apparent hatred for Americans. This isn't even murder, it's just "hurr durr stoopid murican lololol".
People are just sick and tired of Americentrism.
That's a pretty weak excuse.
It's not an excuse.
Your comment makes no sense in context unless it's to offer a justification for the behavior I'm complaining about.
It doesn't need to be excused as it is already justified.
"I'm sick and tired of [nationality]" doesn't actually justify bad behavior towards people of that nationality.
Americentrism isn't a nationality.
It's a pejorative based on nationality.
It's not a pejorative and you show both your ignorance and your lack of education on the matter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americentrismyour ignorance and your lack of education
sigh, I don't know why I bother with people like you.
dark thoughts really means the absence of thoughts
Then stop being american centric.
My last trip to Amsterdam had me astonished at how much they talk about and are consumed by US media.
Who are you addressing?
not you
Whatever you want to tell yourself. lol
what am I telling myself?
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For me it's not hatred, but it's annoying that wherever you go on the internet you get inundated with "america this" and "america that" when it's not relevant to what you're looking for. The only way to escape this is to seek the parts that aren't in english and those tend to be less active for specific communities.
Except all they did was to ask for clarification.
You mean in the picture? Sure, they "asked for clarification" and got a snarky response. They didn't ask for clarification out of nowhere, they confused themselves with their own assumptions while forgetting that other countries exist.
I would call the response more than "snarky". It's mean-spirited and unkind, and I judge the speaker very harshly.
How is it mean-spirited? If anything the person making the assumption about the poster's country and implicitly accusing them of selling alcohol to someone under the drinking age is mean-spirited and unkind.
It sarcastically questions the other person's intelligence.
Doesn't it?
How would you have responded in a way that doesn't question the other person's intelligence?
"This occurred in [countryname]."
I'm sorry to tell you it is not lemmy that hates America, it is the rest of the world. Americans are so full of themselves that they think their problems are world problems and go posting them everywhere like we give a fck. They tell the rest of the world what to do/think while they don't have their own shit in order. They are indoctrinated into thinking they live in the best country while actually America is in real bad shape. Yet they are so quickly offended that they have million dollar lawsuits when someone burns their tongue from buying hot coffee. They are so easily shocked by someone driving 140km/h while the rest of us just shifts to 4th gear.
In our view Americans are prude, weak minded, short minded and annoyingly loud. It is like they stopped developing at some point and act like attention seeking brats.
As a non-American, I get what you say, but I recognise most of those things as stereotypes or examples of extremes.
I'm not a fan of the current state of the US as a whole but my guess is that the average American is as fine -or as bad- as an average local in my own country (both have stereotypes and we can laugh about that). Be it with some different cultural norms.
Some things might surprise one another but I try not to confuse the loudmouths and extreme depictions in the media with the whole population.
Well, at least we can agree that there is a remarkable level of generalized hatred against Americans on Lemmy.
I would call it unhealthy.
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Are you trying to communicate?
It's not just lemmy.
Most of us can't understand America's outsized love for itself.
Outside of the Internet it's not really that outsized.
This OP is clearly not based on any kind of sincere or constructive criticism of the US.
Wait there are people who aren't american? What the
You can always go back to Reddit
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