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[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Everything about America is anti-authoritarian

??????????

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Historically. Not presently. Hence the problem.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

right, so it was anti-authoritarian when the natives were slaughtered by the US army. it was anti-authoritarian when they were herded into "reservations". it was anti-authoritarian to keep millions of people in forced labour camps. and so on. these were all fundamentally anti-authoritarian, yes?

was it also anit-authoritarian to bomb millions of civilians to death the world over?

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let's not forget Japanese internment camps, slavery + Jim Crow, Latino internment camps...

Obviously a freedom-loving, anti-authoritarian country since day one.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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