EDIT: Okay, it was a bit silly of me to drag my heels in, I don’t strictly hate it and there are good things about British cooking (mostly veggies), but I find the meme’s meat obsession super silly. I am having stomach pains and cramped arteries just looking at this stuff.
Highly underrated
I love how it’s superimposed on the diapers lmao, I hope the meme was ironic
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Why would we define Americans in that very specific and idiosyncratic way?
Please go around talking to people of color in the United States and explain this to them and see what they think I guess.
It just seems like you’re accepting all of the premises about the intrinsic alieness and foreignness of people of color in the US that your standard white nationalist would have but woke
Becoming a eugenicist to avoid the idea that Americans have good food
No, they aren’t American because they haven’t completely assimilated into whiteness. This is arguably a good thing because American is a fake settler-colonial identity anyways.
Kinda bizarre how people here are having these patsoc-adjacent takes.
I mean, you shouldn’t want to be American in the same way you shouldn’t want to be Israeli. Pretty much every single Black radical like Malcolm X reject being American, so I’m not saying anything particularly new. There’s that famous speech by a Hawaiian activist titled “We are not Americans.” Modern Pan-African orgs and Indigenous communities also reject the label American as well as the settler-colonial borders of the US and Canada. There’s plenty of Indigenous tribal nations and communities that have their ancestral lands separated into a US Native American half and a Canadian First Nations half, but they still understand themselves as one people because unlike the two illegitimate settler-colonies, they constitute a real nation.
The only real reason why you don’t hear this rhetoric among the various diasporas is because most diaspora communities function as a buffer zone between white settlers at the top and the Black and Indigenous at the bottom. There’s a degree of assimilation/gusanofication among the diasporas too, but for the nonwhite diasporas at least, white settlers are too pathologically racist for them to be fully integrated into whiteness and the settler-colonial order. Just like how the US-Canadian border is largely a legal matter among Indigenous nations, whether your nationality is American or Canadian is largely a legal matter among the diasporas.
Perfectly fine by me if anyone doesn’t want to identify as American. But plenty of people do, and who are you to tell them they aren’t?
How do you square this with the fact that the US is a settler-colony that must be dismantled? With the dismantlement of the US, they wouldn’t be Americans because there wouldn’t be an America to identify as.
That is, unfortunately, a very distant prospect and doesn’t really have any bearing on what I’m talking about
I am simply asking a question. You are free to answer it or ignore it. How do you square people self-identifying as Americans with the fact that the US is a settler-colony that must be dismantled?
Those are two things that are already currently true, so I really don’t see how they need to be squared
Because people who self-identify as X are not going to do anything that would destroy X because that would destroy their sense of identity. If anything, they will fight hard to preserve X even if X ought to be destroyed.
When I talk about destroying America, it’s usually about the unspeakable cruelty not about the food
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: