I agree that’s definitely the case, but I think the problem here is that most Americans can’t tell minorities apart, they see brown skin and assume. I once watched a grown adult yell ‘Mexican go home’ to a Pakistani couple, and this sort of thing is far too common.
it is always fun when you see some movie or tv show where the Irish hate the Itialians etc and you just know in 50 years time they all become friends and start hating each other based on skill colour. Let’s just hope in another 50 years all skin colours will band together to hate on something new like religion or something. Jk ofc
Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
Don’t feel compelled to read the series “in order” too! Most of the stories are self contained.
I’m loving Monstrous Regiment right now. It’s so deliriously amazingly queer.
Terry Pratchett just threads the needle of being hilarious and irreverent while never being mean. His stories have deeper messages about race, gender, class, everything, but they are never morality plays.
Reactionaries just think the country belongs to them alone.
It really is that simple; “truth” to them is just whatever gets them closer to their goal of completely subjegating the people they hate, which is everyone who rejects their cultural hegemony.
Not enforced, but there is still a list of dos and donts for the USA flag, that the right wing and the “patriots” don’t seem bothered about in the slightest.
There are few places in the world deliberately ignorant to their own history as America
The indoctrination begins early and is thorough
And goddamn it was successful
Shhhhh shhhh don’t mention the genocide
I agree that’s definitely the case, but I think the problem here is that most Americans can’t tell minorities apart, they see brown skin and assume. I once watched a grown adult yell ‘Mexican go home’ to a Pakistani couple, and this sort of thing is far too common.
The greater problem is that they think someone’s ethnicity should impact how they treat that person.
it is always fun when you see some movie or tv show where the Irish hate the Itialians etc and you just know in 50 years time they all become friends and start hating each other based on skill colour. Let’s just hope in another 50 years all skin colours will band together to hate on something new like religion or something. Jk ofc
I really have to start reading it, I have the first book but was also gifted a graphic novel version of it a few years back. Thanks for the reminder
Don’t feel compelled to read the series “in order” too! Most of the stories are self contained.
I’m loving Monstrous Regiment right now. It’s so deliriously amazingly queer.
Terry Pratchett just threads the needle of being hilarious and irreverent while never being mean. His stories have deeper messages about race, gender, class, everything, but they are never morality plays.
Reactionaries just think the country belongs to them alone.
It really is that simple; “truth” to them is just whatever gets them closer to their goal of completely subjegating the people they hate, which is everyone who rejects their cultural hegemony.
cheap beer that taste like diluted piss and bimbos in murican flag bikinis?
Don’t forget the conspiracy sticker covered diesels rolling coal with truck nutz.
I love that they aren’t aware of the rules about respecting their own flag.
What rules? There are no enforced rules. The flag code is barely guidelines, and when applied to civilians in unofficial matters are even less strict.
It’s actually insane how little protect the flag has for a country as nationalist as this
Not enforced, but there is still a list of dos and donts for the USA flag, that the right wing and the “patriots” don’t seem bothered about in the slightest.
and don’t they even get to swear an oath to it daily?
Such a creepy cult-like ritual.
They are not even good at being racist. What a day to be alive.