[monochr]

" You are European yes but at the end of the day you are still white and to some not so insignificant part of the population that fact means more than everything else that may set you apart."

This is why everyone thinks Americans are idiots. "You're white" is an idiotic thing to say to a European. I am blond, blue eyed and 1.88m tall. So was my grandfather. That didn't stop Germans from killing him in a concentration camp for being subhuman.

But tell me more about my white privilege when depleted uranium from your weapons of medium destruction have made my fathers ancestral village uninhabitable unless you really like leukemia.

[jusben1369]

"This is why everyone thinks Americans are idiots." - you do realize that if you can say something which even you know to be completely untrue then how do we believe any of your other sentences?

[monochr]

Get out of the US and ask for adjectives describing Americans. Obnoxious, fat and stupid are the most common ones.

[steveeq1]

You honestly believe that? After just reading an article regarding the plight of negative stereotypes? It always strikes me when someone can intellectually understand (and believe) a concept in one context, but not another. Would you feel it would be right to say the same sentence, but replace the word "american" with the word "black"?

[jusben1369]

everyone It's the emotional hyperbole that makes it difficult to believe this is a non emotional well thought through rebuttal. More like HN's road rage.

[dcole2929]

you do realize the guy literally says "I am white but an immigrant from Europe" right? Unless he is speaking a different language or with an obvious accent most people won't know he's not American if he is in America.

Sorry man but if you are blonde, blue eyed, and 1.88 m tall (not sure what your height has to do with anything) and aren't actively speaking there is little difference between you and every other blonde, blue eyed, tall guy born and raised in America.

The point you ask? That there are certain things IN AMERICA that you aren't going to have to deal with strictly because of you're appearance. You may speak differently, but cops aren't gonna be stopping you walking down the street because you have a hoodie on at night.

And if you're worried that we are talking about different things than my original post then yeah. We kind of jumped the shark with the whole the Nazi's still killed my granddad thing.

[monochr]

There's this little place called the rest of the world where I happen to live.

[dcole2929]

Good for you but since the op and I are talking about America the fact that you live elsewhere really isn't relevant. Of course things work differently elsewhere. If you want to talk about how things work in the rest of the world that's not something I'm qualified or willing to comment on.