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My relationship with America is complicated. The ideals espoused at its founding are beautiful. The reality has always been monstrous: a slave empire carved from broken treaties and genocide. What are we to do with such a legacy?
Can we ever purge ourselves of that original sin, fully embrace the half-articulated promises of human freedom of our Declaration of Independence and our constitution? I don't know
But if there's any hope, it lies in full recognition of that sin and reparations for it, inasmuch as true reparation is possible Maybe that means statues have to fall. Not just physically, but spiritually. A full recognition of just who created America, and why
People look at fallen statues and say, they hate America. I love America. This stupid shithole country, I love it with all my heart and I'll always love it and all I want is for it to deserve that love, all I want is for it to become the place it thinks it is
What makes America’s sin “original” and unpurgable more than say, European or East Asian nations?
We were founded as a slave nation in a way they just weren't You could argue that colonialism has similarly marred Europe at this point. And China...wew lad. China. Right now. Not great Mostly I focus on America because I live here and I love the stupid place
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