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“I don’t deny…that this country is flawed….” - Tucker Carlson
Pandora:
--- Quote ---There’s a disclaimer many of us have been conditioned to utter, quite reflexively, and it’s something that has got to stop. When preparing a defense of the United States (against, lamentably, other “Americans”), we may preface it with, “Well, I know our country isn’t perfect” or, as pundit Tucker Carlson said while debating a bigoted lawyer last month, “I don’t deny…that this country is flawed….” Actually, our perspective is flawed.
... Of course, if America were uniquely flawed, it would follow that there are a host of nations better. If we know of one, we may want to consider moving there. If we don’t, we should stop parroting that stupid disclaimer. Russians don’t do it. Chinese don’t do it. Japanese don’t do it. Not even Sudanese, Iranians or North Koreans do it.
In fact, while there’s no nation without sin, can you think of one beyond the waning West whose citizens feel compelled to issue self-flagellating we’re-so-flawed utterances? So why do many Americans, despite occupying history’s greatest nation, feel such a compulsion? What are they comparing America to? Heaven?
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http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/now_we_know_my_mother_has_flaws_but.html
This has annoyed the hell out of me, in the same way as "we are a nation of immigrants" always has, and people need to stop saying both.
RTWT
John Florida:
They love to connect immigrants today with immigrants of the past they way they explain it there are no real Americans other than Indians that got here over a land bridge centuries ago.
When will there be Americans?
Pablo de Fleurs:
It's human beings that are "flawed" and, last I looked...EVERY country has 'em. The United States, however, is still exceptional in its goodness (a trait which is rapidly fading).
Libertas:
That crap makes me want to dismember certain people and thrash them with their own limbs!
AlanS:
--- Quote from: Pandora on October 12, 2017, 08:48:52 AM ---.....in the same way as "we are a nation of immigrants" always has, ....
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Not near as annoying to me as when someone tries to tell the indians are indigenous to the U.S.
No they aren't. They just immigrated a couple thousand years before the white man.
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