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I have a challenge for folks who think this country is so oppressive..... Go spend a year in Darfur or the Congo. Then come back and tell me how unfair life is here in the States.
I have a challenge for folks who think this country is so oppressive..... Go spend a year in Darfur or the Congo. Then come back and tell me how unfair life is here in the States.
I have a challenge for folks who think this country is so oppressive..... Go spend a year in Darfur or the Congo. Then come back and tell me how unfair life is here in the States.
Life in the US, like life anywhere, is not completely fair.
Yes, I am boundlessly grateful that I was not born in a place like Darfur.
Yes, I am boundlessly grateful that I was born in the US, and have both the right to protest unfairness and some small measure of power to do something about that unfairness.
I wonder why you think that the two feelings are mutually exclusive. In fact, I think you can make a very good case that the best way to demonstrate gratitude for being born into a nation where protest is legal - is to exercise that right to protest.
People have the freedom of speech and expression in this country.... They do have the right to stomp on the American flag if they choose. They also have the right to fly a swastika over their homes or shout out racial slurs. Doesn't mean that by doing so, you won't trigger reaction from those you offend.
People have the freedom of speech and expression in this country.... They do have the right to stomp on the American flag if they choose. They also have the right to fly a swastika over their homes or shout out racial slurs. Doesn't mean that by doing so, you won't trigger reaction from those you offend.
And that reaction might hurt
Ahh yes..."you have freedom, but I will use violence if you exercise it"
So classy. What made our nation great was freedoms to express opinions. Your response is quite literally more contemptful then the guys stomping the flag. They stomp a flag to express an opinion, you espouse destroying that freedom via violence.
People have the freedom of speech and expression in this country.... They do have the right to stomp on the American flag if they choose. They also have the right to fly a swastika over their homes or shout out racial slurs. Doesn't mean that by doing so, you won't trigger reaction from those you offend.
And that reaction might hurt
People have the right to do all kinds of disgusting things in America.
But, ain't it strange how some people only embrace the first ammendment when it's defending what they agree with.
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