• cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes. I know. I was there. Are you implying that none of these things I said happened in the USA happened in the USA? Because, they did happen, and it was there. Kind of like what I said and you helpfully quoted.

    My turn. Here’s what you actually said:

    I’m always amazed that people seem to think the USA is a monolith.

    Feel free to point where I said the USA is a monolith. Because while I did say that these horrible thing did happen in the USA, and that the USA is known to be “land of the free, home of the brave”, at no point I said, implied, or subtly hinted at that this was representative of the USA as a whole.

    • Melllvar@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      Your phrasing does in fact imply that it’s commonplace and widespread. For example:

      that “land of the free” that

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      [that] “home of the brave” that

      These phrasings can only refer to the country as a whole.