• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Hundy p. Aside from the sanity-thin norms holding back the American empire from pure naked tyranny, the whole thing was built on slaves and stolen land, and still is through the 13th amendment.

    I was one of the kids who was raised to an ideal of inclusivity and egalitarianism that has never existed in the real America. I left, and now find myself an immigrant from a place that doesn’t seem to exist. Sometimes I feel like a cryptid or something.

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      I was one of the kids who was raised to an ideal of inclusivity and egalitarianism that has never existed in the real America.

      Absolutely true, but in the 70’s at least there was hope, things seemed to generally move in the right direction more often than not.
      Then it slowed down with Reagan, and with Trump it has all gone to shit.
      All countries have problems with racism, but no other democracy has as big a social and cultural debt as USA.