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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 13 Jan 2018
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    Michael Tracey Retweeted Julian Sanchez

    The term undercuts the essence of individualism: that simply by virtue of being born in a particular country, you are intrinsically tarnished by its "shittiness"https://twitter.com/normative/status/952225157090770945 …

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    People keep trying to rephrase it as some kind of policy argument about skills & education. But “Shithole” doesn’t mean “deficient in job training”; it means something utterly disgusting that contaminates whatever touches it.
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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 13 Jan 2018
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        If some foreign leader declared the US a "shithole," it wouldn't be seen as a mere comment on the US's flawed societal features: it'd be seen a scurrilous attempt to impugn all Americans by association

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 13 Jan 2018
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        And yes, when cosmopolitan US liberals smugly decry the inherent backwardness of Arkansas, a very similar phenomenon is on display

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      2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 13 Jan 2018
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        Some of the poorest parts of the country (Eastern Kentucky, for example) are governed by Republicans.

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      2. knitted charm‏ @knitted_charm 13 Jan 2018
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        That’s bc the ppl doing the complaining aren’t Individualists, they’re faux-Collectivists (faux bc they’re not actually altruistic; they simply pin useful group/identity labels on their ego in order to maintain a sense of moral superiority & self-righteousness). They’re adrift.

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      3. knitted charm‏ @knitted_charm 13 Jan 2018
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        All seriousness, anyone offended by the term shld use their annual 2 weeks of paid vacation to visit slums in Haiti, El Salvador, or even parts of the U.S. You can find shitholes all over the world. That doesn’t mean ppl there are shitty. Last thing they need is faux-sympathy.

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      2. Matthew Battle‏ @librab103 13 Jan 2018
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        Hence why Europeans think all Americans are rude and trashy.

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      1. Obvious‏ @adamlawyer 13 Jan 2018
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        If you’ve lived in those counties for any time you would know that US greatness is it’s large middle class, which Dems are anxious to destroy & those counties are desperate because of oligarchies, envied by US liberals, that enrich a minority on the backs of impoverished masses

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      2. Jackmus Sandrop‏ @touleoneplathma 13 Jan 2018
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        Mass immigration used as a weapon or a tool to fundamentally change a nation's demographic makeup also undercuts individuality.

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        Why does everyone think immigration during the largest international migration is a conspiracy? It’s a response to one crisis or another. There is more generative capacity with difference from diverse individuals & ideas “mixing.”

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      1. X on Earth‏ @XonEarth 13 Jan 2018
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        I see Trump's statement to mean the U.S. uses these nations as primitive toilets.

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      1. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements 13 Jan 2018
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        Throw me off in a discussion with imagery as if an entire nation is a melted down collective hive mind for IQ. And that this is explanation and rationale for why the world is the way it is & should form immigration policy. *White supremacy!*

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      1. Ed F‏ @bigedfritz 13 Jan 2018
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        People of Detroit are solving their own problems now that corrupt government is out of the way

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      1. Leena Varughese M.D.‏ @LeenaV_MD 13 Jan 2018
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        I called USA a #shithole on twitter for a while, it most certainly doesn’t literally translate to USA only contains *shit. It’s merely a figure of speech, at most, it critiques issues of fascism, Satan quo, intentional in grouping per racism sexism & otherization, etc #freespeech

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      1. Greek Stav‏ @GrkStav 14 Jan 2018
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        You know that the implied causality is not from country to individual citizens. It is, undoubtedly, from biological essense of "volk" to essential/eternal 'kultur", to institutions and practices, to concrete individuals. Naked "scientific racism".

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      1.  🇺🇸MAGAme 🇺🇸‏ @heyjustmaga 13 Jan 2018
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        The convos spinning off of one alleged comment by @POTUS are kinda funny. 😄

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