― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:11 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm talking more if, like, someone in New York said to you, Laurel, that he hated all those midwestern Christians and they all should be shot, and you said "well, that's a big part of where I'm from," and he said "yeah, but you're not LIKE THAT," or "you're not ONE OF THEM" -- even if you really aren't, it's horrifying. Like someone hands you a gun: "Just shoot your parents and we'll pretend you're one of us."
(xpost Yeah Laurel that's totally cool by me! And non-surprising, America doesn't invest words in like differentiating between post-slavery black and African-immigrant black, and what with slavery its idea of black is totally west-African and etc -- it makes sense.)
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 14 April 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Has this changed -if it existed- under Obama
Ugh punching up anyway
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 10:45 (eight years ago) link
Experienced this at work the other day, very nice guy who basically thinks the US is a fascist state - "they don't have the same freedoms we have over here in Europe" (he actually said this!) - capable of just about any evil you can imagine. Not helped by the fact that we were working with was a left wing Spanish guy, so anti-American almost by definition though in a more measured, thoughtful way. Anyway, over the course of a few hours, I managed to reason with him and get him to explain and, in some cases, moderate his more outlandish opinions. I still feel like the next time I work with guy I should wear one of lapel badges with the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes entwined.― Fields of Fat Henry (Tom D.), Monday, 28 September 2015 18:41 (1 month ago) BookmarkFlag Post Permalink
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 11:00 (eight years ago) link
If Anti-Americanism here/anywhere intensified over US Gov 10-15 years ago it's focus now (again?) is probably spread thinner over (often racist) gun violence, hard right media influence and corporate greed-negligence.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 11:10 (eight years ago) link
corporate greed-negligence
I thought the UK led the world in this tbh.
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 11:30 (eight years ago) link
typical UK triumphalism
― nashwan, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 11:46 (eight years ago) link
If only we had a precise English word for the irrational or stereotyped fear or hatred of foreigners! If only that word existed!
But I guess "xenophobia" has 5 syllables and "racism" only 2, so we can't expect Americans to understand or use it. ;-)
― La Düsseldork (Branwell with an N), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 11:56 (eight years ago) link
There's something very Guardian BTL about being anti-American in the UK in 2015
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 12:17 (eight years ago) link