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by FreshStart 1086 days ago
A healing society? This is the only society who embraced the melting pot and got greatly rewarded for this. There are no wounds, compared to the old world stratified layers and Asia's invisible caste systems&racism. there are working class grievances becoming racism but even that is pretty universal. No wounds but those inflicted by the divide and conquer on all sides.
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orf 1086 days ago
America doesn’t have any implicit caste system, racism or “wounds”? A huge percentage of the population would disagree with you.

People still fly the confederate flag.

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FreshStart 1086 days ago
Some parts of the middle east are a living confederacy right now. There are segregation signs in some shops in china (plus enslavement of poor/woman) and invisible segregation by race in south American politics. People learn about history, people try to avoid repetition of that history and the flag is mostly a symbol against the reintroduction of "caste" in the US. Nazi like shit heads are pretty universal and the US is shining beacon for those escaping these circumstances.

"US always evil exceptionalism"is a plague among the authoritarian left.

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orf 1085 days ago
Yes: bad places exist in the world.

No: the confederate flag is mostly flown by nice well learned history enthusiasts who simply couldn’t bear to see their fellow man of any ethnicity placed in any form of hierarchy or chains, and so display it to show everyone how glad they are that the confederates where defeated.

“US is always number one and everything is just perfect” is a plague among the uneducated right. There is nuance to everything, unfortunately.

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