ok call me when new york city is keeping tens of thousands of people in hellish underground prisons for decades with no trial and zero access to the outside world so when they’re freed they ask if they got liberated by notorious dead person of 18 years saddam hussein
i don’t think if you let people out of rikers they would ask if they had been pardoned by ronald reagan
American leftists really be like “America is the most evil, horrible country to exist and I am so brave for living through it, no other country could ever understand what it’s like to live under fascism”
And then deny the horrors faced by other people in other countries, have the audacity to compare shit like this – we have problems here don’t get me wrong, but most Americans have not and never will ever know what it’s like to live under regimes like that experienced by people in places like Syria. Oh you went to jail over night for driving drunk? Acab but let’s glorify the likes of Stalin, Assad, Mao, etc lmfao
I’ve been homeless, I have been in severe poverty most of my life, and I still know what I’ve gone through isn’t much compared to people living under dictatorships ya’ll are so fucking stupid
I have said and will continue to say that American leftists do not view non-Americans as people, especially if they’re non-Americans in any shade but lily-white.
We talk a lot about the dominant group victimhood phenomenon complex of the white Christian far right.
But the there’s an equally narcissistic victimhood complex at play among American left-wing authoritarians, which allows them to unironically make claims like the bizarre tweet in the original post*.
It takes a special kind of disconnect from reality to so flippantly trivialise the atrocities of the Syrian regime, and erase the suffering of its victims, by claiming that living in NYC is in any way comparable to persecution by al-Assad’s regime.
* part of me wants to think they’re pulling Poe’s law on us – it’s that atrocious – but I can’t honestly hold out any hope for that
amhrancas 