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Let's not forget Japanese internment camps, slavery + Jim Crow, Latino internment camps...
Obviously a freedom-loving, anti-authoritarian country since day one.
yes, i stopped at some point but as well as what you pointed out, who could forget the anti-authoritarian liberation of the philippines from spanish rule which somehow oops ended in american rule.
it's also anti-authoritarian when the police kill more people in a year than some countries have
i support the troops in an anti-authoritarian way, y'see.
and let's not forget the whiskey rebellion, which ended with no exercise of authority at all