fuuuckyikyak on Yik Yak | Crazy how Americans will grow up correctly identifying the empire as evil in Star Wars or the mining corporations as evil in avatar and then look at America in the world and think “yeah we’re the good guys”

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US Politics 14h

fuuuckyikyak

Crazy how Americans will grow up correctly identifying the empire as evil in Star Wars or the mining corporations as evil in avatar and then look at America in the world and think “yeah we’re the good guys”

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Anonymous 14h

Bucket used to think like this :(

Anonymous 13h

Let’s not forget this was done by older countries in Europe than America. America just took the reins and roided up

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just_a_bucket 14h

Bro so did I, for an embarrassingly long time. In a way I sorta get clinging to it, if you can believe in a morally upright America you can feel less repulsed at the things you see every day which are obviously unnecessary and horrific

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Anonymous

#4 13h

Fs, not saying we’re the first. Tbf tho most history classes don’t completely shy away from calling colonizers of the past what they are, American empire usually gets the rose colored glasses