• stink@lemmygrad.ml
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    14 days ago

    My coworker was saying the other day “America was never at the point where someone would kill their own neighbor”

    After I mentioned literal slavery, jim crow, anti italian hate, anti irish hate, anti muslim hate, he tried to change the goal posts by saying he “achyually” meant the hate between political parties.

    Libs are not ok

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      My coworker was saying the other day “America was never at the point where someone would kill their own neighbor”

      am*rica is famous for people killing their neighbors, schoolmates, families etc.
      if i was asked “which country is it most likely that neighbors would kill each other?” i would say the usa without any hesitation and it’s not even close

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        14 days ago

        Yeah it lead to a heated argument and I realized there’s no point in getting through to him. Liberalism is a disease of the comfortable.

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        if i was asked “which country is it most likely that neighbors would kill each other?” i would say the usa without any hesitation and it’s not even close

        Well, there’s probably some argument for a place like former Yugoslavia or Israel, and obviously Ukraine

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      Tell that to Reverend James Reeb, a white protestor of segregation who was beaten to death in Selma. But really, they are making an extremely shady argument because the biggest protestors of various socially reactionary policies are uniformly going to be people targeted by those policies, so MLK or Harvey Milk or someone “don’t count” as assassinations based on political views because they were themselves minorities and it is “merely” a hate crime.