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Your original comment is flagged, as was mine, but as an exercise, think about the following:

Civilized people on the left are also pro-American. Is pro-American really a partisan issue to you?

It's only partisan if the other side is anti-American. And in that case I see no issue with taking the pro-American side.

If anything is extremist, it's painting "pro-American" as a partisan activity. That's something I only see far-left politicians do.

Why does the word "pro-American" trigger this emotion in you? You say you have no issue with a zero tolerance for pro-Americanism, but for some reason, using the "pro" word makes you upset.

That seems quite extreme to me. They are the same statement. Sure, conservative people moght be more inclined to use "pro-America" than progressives, but there's nothing inherently partisan about the phrase.

It seems you have no issue with the contents of pro-American, but only with the form of it, or perhaps the tone of it.

That is not a good reason to oppose it.


Antiracists are as against racism as North Korea is democratic, and the people's, and as much as the Berlin Wall was an anti-fascist protection rampart and totally not a way to stop people from defecting en masse.

Ostensible names are just that, ostensible. They do not always describe reality and are often chosen to mislead. With woke antiracists, that is exactly the case.

I've seen "antiracist" lecturers say kindly silly little things like "white people are born to not being human", an "antiracist" teacher saying white people are born human, but invariably abused by their parents "into whiteness". The torrent of absolutely blatant anti-white racism from these sorts of people is comical in its proportion, and neverending. Their every campaign is "we'll include sparkles everyone sparkles (NOT YOU), so join us at..."

Somehow, it's hard to take the epithet seriously. I wonder why.




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