| Anteater |
02-07-2020 07:18 AM |
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Originally Posted by elphenor
(Post 2103960)
first: **** you
2nd the irony in taking national pride in what are essentially cultural deviations arising from the oppressed that were forcefully taken from their origin countries has some irony to it
worthy of an asterisk
especially sense it's glaringly obvious what American pride is really about here and it's not a celebration of diversity
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No, but it's pointless whining about what you are talking about when you have centuries of history prior to America where civilizations were built on the oppression, enslavement, whatever of whoever happened to be there before. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Does Rome ring any bells? How about the Mongols? Domestically, the Aztecs and Mayan civilizations were into some bad **** as well. Are those cultures devoid of merit despite the millions that suffered?
If you want something practical out of this, I'd recommend appreciating the fact that if diversity didn't matter in America, you wouldn't have multi-billion dollar companies and organizations pushing messages about toxic masculinity, the "evils of white nationalism", lots of imagery of mixed race couples, etc. into the mainstream or making Colin Kaepernick the face of an ad campaign that spent millions upon millions to reach a lot of people. Going by all that, I'd say diversity and the desire to perpetuate it is alive and well. |
