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Really trendy these days. One argument as to why:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio ... 49534.html
The roots of global anti-Americanism
Revelations of Korean rapper Psy's anti-American past are emblematic of a global resentment caused by US militarism.

The incongruity of it seemed to be nothing short of a betrayal. After lightheartedly dancing his way into the hearts of Americans and gaining entrance to the inner sanctum of their cherished cult of celebrity, the Korean rapper, Psy, whose song "Gangam Style" became the most watched video in the history of YouTube and made him a pop culture sensation, has been revealed to have a politically active past which places him directly at odds with the American mainstream worldview and which violently decries its most basic articles of faith.

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While the stories of American brutality in places such as Korea are unknown or ignored by the overwhelming majority of Americans, they are less quickly forgotten by the citizens of the countries which have suffered and continue to suffer horrific atrocities at the hands of US troops.

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However, a 2012 Pew Research poll showed the least favourable perceptions of the US today to be in countries within the Arab and Muslim worlds; negative views which are thought to have briefly abated upon the election of Barack Obama but which can now be seen to have returned to their historic lows during the George W Bush era.

Among countries polled the bottom echelon are exclusively countries with Muslim majority populations. Even those such as Turkey and Jordan whose governments are traditionally allied with the US showed overwhelmingly negative attitudes towards America, with the latter polling at a mere 12 per cent favourability.

Tellingly, Jordan also happens to be home to a massive population of refugees from the American invasion of Iraq, the civilian victims of a war who have been forgotten by Americans but continue to live on in desperation and misery in many countries scattered throughout the region.

While an incredible amount of research has gone into formulating complex theories to explain this widespread disdain for the US, Occam's Razor, the logical principle that the simplest explanation is most often the correct one suggests that the American militarism which once ravaged Korea and which has now been set upon the Muslim world is the cause of this growing antipathy.

Pakistan, which polled at roughly 9 per cent favourability towards the US in a 2010 BBC World poll, once had a vibrantly pro-American polity where Jacquelyn Kennedy was mobbed in the streets with flower garlands by thousands of admirers during a state visit and where American popular culture was once widely revered and emulated.

For Americans who are commonly feted with reassurances of their country's benevolent role in the world, it may come as a surprise that half of all refugees on the planet today are running from American wars.

The wanton, industrial-scale violence, which the US has unleashed upon the civilians of countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia has naturally generated a tidal wave of negative feeling within these countries which many Americans utterly fail to grasp.

Episodes such as the gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family by US troops are emblematic of the fundamental sadism of American policy towards the region. However, in a type of bizarre dark comedy, popularly elected American leaders continue to question the lack of gratitude among the populations upon whom they have let loose this violence.

What this appears to represent is a type of brazen ignorance and egotism which has come to represent mainstream government policy; the type of myopia under which a country can launch a full-scale war, invasion and occupation of another sovereign nation under entirely false pretences, kill hundreds of thousands in the process and create millions of refugees and still at the end sincerely ask the question "Why they do hate us?".
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A more complete list of atrocities committed by American troops in Korea, the Middle East, and wherewhere are in the original article, as well as links to supporting documentation.
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People who hate (group I like) are racist assholes. People who hate (group I hate) are just being reasonable. :roll:
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Juggernaut Nihilism wrote:People who hate (group I like) are racist assholes. People who hate (group I hate) are just being reasonable.
Apparently the key difference is that I can defend groups I like, you can't defend America. 8-)
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Oh, and the point of the article is that people around the world don't like the US because the US military kills them. But that's just like racism, right?
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Ibrahim wrote:Really trendy these days. One argument as to why:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio ... 49534.html
The roots of global anti-Americanism
Revelations of Korean rapper Psy's anti-American past are emblematic of a global resentment caused by US militarism.

The incongruity of it seemed to be nothing short of a betrayal. After lightheartedly dancing his way into the hearts of Americans and gaining entrance to the inner sanctum of their cherished cult of celebrity, the Korean rapper, Psy, whose song "Gangam Style" became the most watched video in the history of YouTube and made him a pop culture sensation, has been revealed to have a politically active past which places him directly at odds with the American mainstream worldview and which violently decries its most basic articles of faith.

...

While the stories of American brutality in places such as Korea are unknown or ignored by the overwhelming majority of Americans, they are less quickly forgotten by the citizens of the countries which have suffered and continue to suffer horrific atrocities at the hands of US troops.

...

However, a 2012 Pew Research poll showed the least favourable perceptions of the US today to be in countries within the Arab and Muslim worlds; negative views which are thought to have briefly abated upon the election of Barack Obama but which can now be seen to have returned to their historic lows during the George W Bush era.

Among countries polled the bottom echelon are exclusively countries with Muslim majority populations. Even those such as Turkey and Jordan whose governments are traditionally allied with the US showed overwhelmingly negative attitudes towards America, with the latter polling at a mere 12 per cent favourability.

Tellingly, Jordan also happens to be home to a massive population of refugees from the American invasion of Iraq, the civilian victims of a war who have been forgotten by Americans but continue to live on in desperation and misery in many countries scattered throughout the region.

While an incredible amount of research has gone into formulating complex theories to explain this widespread disdain for the US, Occam's Razor, the logical principle that the simplest explanation is most often the correct one suggests that the American militarism which once ravaged Korea and which has now been set upon the Muslim world is the cause of this growing antipathy.

Pakistan, which polled at roughly 9 per cent favourability towards the US in a 2010 BBC World poll, once had a vibrantly pro-American polity where Jacquelyn Kennedy was mobbed in the streets with flower garlands by thousands of admirers during a state visit and where American popular culture was once widely revered and emulated.

For Americans who are commonly feted with reassurances of their country's benevolent role in the world, it may come as a surprise that half of all refugees on the planet today are running from American wars.

The wanton, industrial-scale violence, which the US has unleashed upon the civilians of countries such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia has naturally generated a tidal wave of negative feeling within these countries which many Americans utterly fail to grasp.

Episodes such as the gang rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and her family by US troops are emblematic of the fundamental sadism of American policy towards the region. However, in a type of bizarre dark comedy, popularly elected American leaders continue to question the lack of gratitude among the populations upon whom they have let loose this violence.

What this appears to represent is a type of brazen ignorance and egotism which has come to represent mainstream government policy; the type of myopia under which a country can launch a full-scale war, invasion and occupation of another sovereign nation under entirely false pretences, kill hundreds of thousands in the process and create millions of refugees and still at the end sincerely ask the question "Why they do hate us?".
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A more complete list of atrocities committed by American troops in Korea, the Middle East, and wherewhere are in the original article, as well as links to supporting documentation.

Thank You Very Much for your post, Ibrahim.

First the bottom ;) lines.......More ass ;) later in the post ...... ;)

From the radio today...... "My father died fighting to save Korea...... and Psy would be a lot thinner ;) otherwise..... :twisted:


And Psy himself has disavowed his words........
Anti-American performances and subsequent apology

In 2002, PSY participated in an anti-American concert after a U.S. military convoy struck and killed two 14-year-old South Korean schoolgirls during the Yangju highway incident. The soldiers involved in the incident were acquitted by U.S. military courts,[78] which fueled a significant amount of anti-American sentiment in South Korea. During his performance, PSY lifted up a model of an M2 Bradley IFV and smashed it against the stage.[79][80]

In 2004, the South Korean translator and Christian missionary Kim Sun-il was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq after the South Korean government refused to reconsider sending its armed forces to support the Iraq War. Although initial protests were only directed towards the South Korean government and towards extremists in Iraq, anti-U.S. military protesters decided to seize the moment to trigger a much larger wave of anti-Americanism. During a concert, PSY admonished the Iraqi kidnappers, condemned South Korea's former president Roh Mu-hyun, and also sang along to lyrics of the song "Dear American" by South Korean rock band N.EX.T, who composed it to condemn the United States and its military for its role in the Iraq war.[81] Some of the anti-American lyrics sung by PSY included the following verses: "Kill those genuflecting Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives and those who ordered them to torture," and "Kill [the Yankees'] daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers / Kill them all slowly and painfully."[82][83] Although PSY's actions did not receive any significant international media coverage at that time, this changed after the media reported about it in early December 2012. On December 7, 2012, PSY issued an apology directed towards members of the U.S. military and to the American people for his "inflammatory and inappropriate" language, and expressed hope that the American public will accept his apology.[84]
In the incident that provoked Psy to sing the disgusting song, note who killed the Korean missionary........

Iraqis killed the Korean missionary........... Probably Jihadi Muslims........

Not Americans.........

Wonder why Murtaza Hussain the author of this biased piece of toxic waste ;) neglected to mention that fact ;)

Just as he neglected to mention that the Korean War was a UN effort as well an American one........

And that it saved the South Koreans from the horrors that the North Koreans suffer from living under the rule of the amazingly evil Kim Il family.........

A place so bad that people try to escape from it to China!!!

So bad that nubile North Korean girls are willing to marry ancient Chinese farmers and dread what will happen to them and their unborn children if they get caught & sent back to the Cold Hell Called North Korea.........

A place so Orwellian that Face Crime actually exists........

Dangerous not to publicly mourn hard enough when one of the Kim Ill Devils dies and goes back to Hell TOS ;) :twisted: .

I suspect that if Murtaza Hussain had been born a woman ;) :twisted: in North Korea, he too would be thinner but still be a biased jerk due the brainwashing the Norks do...

I have South Korean friends..... Bad things happen in wars........ And should be punished......... Sometimes aren't...... That is wrong..... Should be compensated if can....

But regarding the lack of American popularity in the various Muslim countries Murtaza Hussain cites, I suspect the feeling may be somewhat mutual post 911. ;) :twisted:

And IMVHO South Korean is a much better place than it would have been if the North Koreans had won.......

IMVHO a better place than most or all of the Muslim lands that Murtaza Hussain cited......... ;) :twisted: *

*If Murtaza Hussain had been born a woman in some of the places whose opinion he values so much, he might be dead of other causes... honor killing, stoning etc..
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Ibrahim wrote:Oh, and the point of the article is that people around the world don't like the US because the US military kills them. But that's just like racism, right?
Ibrahim wrote:Racism is essentially about behavior. Or more specifically, it is about attributing behavior to an arbitrary group. That group can be ethnic, cultural, religious, sexual, tribal etc.

-Ibrahim (Apr 13, 2012)
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Monster , if you watched that video, you saw (beginning @ 38:00) Roosevelt saying to Churchill, in the past, British and German banks had cornered the world (economy), and, America's price for entering the war (on British side) would be, Brits giving away the British empire (colonies) .. please watch that part of the clip .. very clear .. basically what I have said in many of my posts

WW II was the fight between British and German capital, for the colonies (resources) .. Germans wanted free access to those resources (on British colonies) .. and .. Germans got free accesses, Brits lost (the empire)

So far, so good

but

things got highjacked

using communism as excuse, the colonies (natural resources, oil, copper, etc), changed hand from Brits to Americans .. and .. 5/6 of world population stayed pooooor .. AND .. the most loved America became the most hated America .. this transformation started with Truman (a president who had not even finish high school)

Things downhill since .. all powers trying to bring America back to good old America, were either assassinated (JFK), bood out (LBJ), or ridiculed (Carter) .. crooks (Nixon), Frank Sinatra Hollywood (Reagan), Monica (Bill C.), CIA carrier diplomat (Bush 1) and W. , all , just played the game, just kickin the can

America missed last 70 yrs to shape a wonderful (for all) next 500 yrs .. that was a opportunity that never existed since Cyrus ruled that vast empire .. Cyrus empire ruled for 1000 yrs, best for
circumstances prevailing at that time .. America, 1945-2010, last 65 yrs, was in the same position as Cyrus .. but wasted the historical opportunists for nickel and dime

Time for children of Cyrus, Ahmadinejat, to give you guys a helping hand, to take your hand and guide in the self created darkness of western contemporary history


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Huxley wrote:
Ibrahim wrote:Oh, and the point of the article is that people around the world don't like the US because the US military kills them. But that's just like racism, right?
Ibrahim wrote:Racism is essentially about behavior. Or more specifically, it is about attributing behavior to an arbitrary group. That group can be ethnic, cultural, religious, sexual, tribal etc.

-Ibrahim (Apr 13, 2012)


Except the point isn't that all Americans are this that or the other. Its that people in other countries say they dislike America due to the ongoing actions of the US military. I guess if you don't like American soldiers raping/murdering your neighbors you are some kind of racist.
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Flag burnings, hostage taking, protests outside our embassies, suicide bombers

Sort of all fits together now that you mention it....




Who knew :roll:
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Ibrahim wrote:
Huxley wrote:
Ibrahim wrote:Oh, and the point of the article is that people around the world don't like the US because the US military kills them. But that's just like racism, right?
Ibrahim wrote:Racism is essentially about behavior. Or more specifically, it is about attributing behavior to an arbitrary group. That group can be ethnic, cultural, religious, sexual, tribal etc.

-Ibrahim (Apr 13, 2012)


Except the point isn't that all Americans are this that or the other. Its that people in other countries say they dislike America due to the ongoing actions of the US military. I guess if you don't like American soldiers raping/murdering your neighbors you are some kind of racist.
Sounds dangerously like disliking or distrusting blacks due to the actions of a few criminals.
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Hoosiernorm wrote:Flag burnings, hostage taking, protests outside our embassies, suicide bombers

Sort of all fits together now that you mention it....




Who knew :roll:
Thank you Very Much for your post, Hoosier.

True.......

But it is natural for the stay at home enablers as well as raiders taking a break to resent it when the Victims of their Viking ;) oops I mean Jihadi buddies follow them home and do a punitive expedition........

Jihadi Muslims have been robbing, raping, raiding, slaving, stealing land and practicing piracy since before there was an America or Middle English let alone Modern English was spoken........

The Jihadis & many members of their Co-Dependent Enabler Culture ;) :twisted: :evil: :lol: resent it highly when their Victims get Violent with them.........

Quite frankly I hope more people get Sikh ;) :twisted: of the Jihadis and their Co-Dependent Enabler Culture which idolizes as martyrs Jihadi Jerks who get themselves killed...

If you can't be a Baptized Sikh Be a Baptist Sikh.... ;)

Only Constant Carry Requirement is the Kirpan or alternative weapon....... ;) :twisted:

Carry be Concealed..... ;)

The Combs Can be Cool too...... Keep the ladies happy ......... and if of the proper type can be a fair weapon too........
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Juggernaut Nihilism wrote:
Ibrahim wrote:
Huxley wrote:
Ibrahim wrote:Oh, and the point of the article is that people around the world don't like the US because the US military kills them. But that's just like racism, right?
Ibrahim wrote:Racism is essentially about behavior. Or more specifically, it is about attributing behavior to an arbitrary group. That group can be ethnic, cultural, religious, sexual, tribal etc.

-Ibrahim (Apr 13, 2012)


Except the point isn't that all Americans are this that or the other. Its that people in other countries say they dislike America due to the ongoing actions of the US military. I guess if you don't like American soldiers raping/murdering your neighbors you are some kind of racist.
Sounds dangerously like disliking or distrusting blacks due to the actions of a few criminals.
Which you claim is totally justified, signs if superior perceptive abilities in fact, so you should be right on board with the victims of American militarism hating the US. Right up your alley, really.
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Hoosiernorm wrote:Flag burnings, hostage taking, protests outside our embassies, suicide bombers

Sort of all fits together now that you mention it....




Who knew :roll:

I know, right? Its like, what is these peoples' problem?
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Ibrahim wrote:
Hoosiernorm wrote:Flag burnings, hostage taking, protests outside our embassies, suicide bombers

Sort of all fits together now that you mention it....




Who knew :roll:

I know, right? Its like, what is these peoples' problem?
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Ibrahim wrote:Oh, and the point of the article is that people around the world don't like the US because the US military kills them. But that's just like racism, right?
People the world over, including inside the United States, are legitimately upset about America's never ending and disastrous military adventures but this is not why people hate us. Koreans, for example, benefit tremendously from US military protection and are not being killed by Americans, and that is but one example that deflates this theory. Japanese or Korean rage at US service personnel causing traffic accidents or committing crimes is perfectly understandable but the intensity of the feelings is fueled by a resentment of American power and the innately human tendency to dislike 'outsiders'. In terms of cost to society, there is no difference between a fatal car accident caused by a Korean soldier and a US soldier. But the events are viewed very differently through the lens of tribalism, which arguably occupies the same part of the human psyche as racism.

From my conversations with people from places as distant as Brazil, Iran, and China, people hate the United States because they are jealous of our status and power.
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Ibrahim wrote:Oh, and the point of the article is that people around the world don't like the US because the US military kills them. But that's just like racism, right?
People the world over, including inside the United States, are legitimately upset about America's never ending and disastrous military adventures but this is not why people hate us. Koreans, for example, benefit tremendously from US military protection and are not being killed by Americans, and that is but one example that deflates this theory. Japanese or Korean rage at US service personnel causing traffic accidents or committing crimes is perfectly understandable but the intensity of the feelings is fueled by a resentment of American power and the innately human tendency to dislike 'outsiders'. In terms of cost to society, there is no difference between a fatal car accident caused by a Korean soldier and a US soldier. But the events are viewed very differently through the lens of tribalism, which arguably occupies the same part of the human psyche as racism.

From my conversations with people from places as distant as Brazil, Iran, and China, people hate the United States because they are jealous of our status and power.
Considering they used to love us, I cannot believe that is so.

People are pissed off that we are using our status and power to be bullies.
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Zack Morris wrote:
Ibrahim wrote:Oh, and the point of the article is that people around the world don't like the US because the US military kills them. But that's just like racism, right?
People the world over, including inside the United States, are legitimately upset about America's never ending and disastrous military adventures but this is not why people hate us. Koreans, for example, benefit tremendously from US military protection and are not being killed by Americans,
I'll grant that there are also Americans disgusted with US conduct internationally, but did you read the article after the link? It talks about the ongoing rapes and murders of Korean civilians by US forces based in Korea, and also mentions various massacres during the Korean War.

Japanese or Korean rage at US service personnel causing traffic accidents or committing crimes is perfectly understandable but the intensity of the feelings is fueled by a resentment of American power and the innately human tendency to dislike 'outsiders'.


So its the xenophobia of those inscrutable Orientals, not the ongoing crimes committed by US troops locally? I'm not so sure about that.



From my conversations with people from places as distant as Brazil, Iran, and China, people hate the United States because they are jealous of our status and power.
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Enki wrote:Considering they used to love us, I cannot believe that is so.

People are pissed off that we are using our status and power to be bullies.
Things have definitely changed. People's perception of America is very different after the evidence of widespread civilian murder and the use and defense of torture were made public in the mid 2000's. Reflexive anti-Americanism used to be "haha, their tourists are fat and dumb" and now its based on a decade-long litany of war crimes that will never be punished.
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Hoosiernorm wrote: Image

Burn some kids with a Hellfire. "Well, war will always lead to civilian casualties. *puffs pipe*"

Burn a US flag. "THOSE SICK F_CKING TERRORISTS! *tips over Rascal rushing to computer to vent rage*"
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Ibrahim wrote:
Hoosiernorm wrote: Image

Burn some kids with a Hellfire. "Well, war will always lead to civilian casualties. *puffs pipe*"

Burn a US flag. "THOSE SICK F_CKING TERRORISTS! *tips over Rascal rushing to computer to vent rage*"
Man they all look like terrorists to me, I've seen pictures of them on Fox News and they all wear the same kinds of clothes and grow the same kinds of beards and all wear those funny looking hats. It's probably just that they all look alike or something..."Drinks Diet Cherry Coke while Eating Doritios".

I betcha that some of those guys in that picture are all enemies of the United States as well, probably on that most wanted lists and stuff. I heard about it on Talk Radio how all those guys are all terrorists, they just say that they like America to come here and plot against us all.

Did you know that some of them live here for years as Doctors and Engineers and then after they've been here for 20 or 30 years they want to build those Mosques right here in America! "Puts fresh chewing tobacco into mouth"
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Ibrahim wrote: I'll grant that there are also Americans disgusted with US conduct internationally, but did you read the article after the link? It talks about the ongoing rapes and murders of Korean civilians by US forces based in Korea, and also mentions various massacres during the Korean War.
I did read the article and I acknowledged the crimes committed by US servicemen. I'm not going to excuse the atrocities committed during the Korean War but these were not as widespread as those committed by North Korean forces or even the South Koreans themselves. South Korea's tremendous development would have been impossible had the US not been willing to intervene and I think this needs to be balanced against war crimes committed during a messy war. I think anyone who assesses the situation rationally will understand that war crimes are inevitably going to occur in a conflict of that scale.

Young Koreans today, including Psy's generation, don't have any genuine emotional connection to the horrors of the Korean War. They are just using it as an excuse for their anti-Americanism.
So its the xenophobia of those inscrutable Orientals, not the ongoing crimes committed by US troops locally? I'm not so sure about that.
No, that's not what I said. The reaction from scrutable Occidentals would be similar. One traffic accident, rape, or murder by a US soldier stationed in any country will outweigh a hundred such crimes committed by local military personnel.

I'm sure you are aware of anger in the US at illegal Mexicans who have caused fatal car accidents and how this has been used as fodder in the larger backlash against Latin American immigration.
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Tribalism and jealousy are powerful forces. I'm surprised you discount them. The Al Jazeera article cites 'Occam's Razor' in its argument. I don't think they went far enough in their quest for understanding the very simple root cause of anti-Americanism.
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Enki wrote: People are pissed off that we are using our status and power to be bullies.
I call bullshit. Those pissed off people know what real bullying actually looks like and should know better than to use this line of defense. Ask yourself what some racist prick from Sao Paulo living the high life in New York city has suffered from American 'bullying'.
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Zack Morris wrote:
Enki wrote: People are pissed off that we are using our status and power to be bullies.
I call bullshit. Those pissed off people know what real bullying actually looks like and should know better than to use this line of defense. Ask yourself what some racist prick from Sao Paulo living the high life in New York city has suffered from American 'bullying'.
You're wrong. People who get bombed get upset about being bombed. No one likes an invincible bully.
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Enki wrote:
Zack Morris wrote:
Enki wrote: People are pissed off that we are using our status and power to be bullies.
I call bullshit. Those pissed off people know what real bullying actually looks like and should know better than to use this line of defense. Ask yourself what some racist prick from Sao Paulo living the high life in New York city has suffered from American 'bullying'.
You're wrong. People who get bombed get upset about being bombed. No one likes an invincible bully.
Most people have not been bombed by Americans and aren't even from a country in which America has any significant military involvement. And yet, many of these people dislike Americans. Why?
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Zack Morris wrote:
Enki wrote: People are pissed off that we are using our status and power to be bullies.
I call bullshit. Those pissed off people know what real bullying actually looks like and should know better than to use this line of defense. Ask yourself what some racist prick from Sao Paulo living the high life in New York city has suffered from American 'bullying'.
US trade disputes with Brazil has been a source of mutual animosity, to the extent that Brazilian customs set up a separate line for American passports for a while, just to screw with them.

Anyway the point of the article is that people hate the US in places where US troops are killing/raping them, and that people elsewhere are disgusted by these actions when they read about them. So I don't see why a Brazilian couldn't be disgusted with the US murder and torture they see on TV every day, just like anybody else with news and internet access.
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