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
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― 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