Hi, American here. I just wanted to take this time to say sorry about…you know…everything.
Our country is not ok right now. We’re going through some shit. And I look at other countries and hope they don’t think that all of us support this nonsense.
It’s bad enough that I don’t even have to specify WHAT has gone wrong. I have to appologize for our current general existence.
I can’t even say this isn’t who we are either. Right now our biggest issues are racism, dumb fucks, and lack of empathy towards others.
…yeah, that just sounds like historically accurate America. We’ve always been this way. It’s just especially bad right now.
So to the rest of the world, sorry about our existence.
German opposition in 1930s Germany: “Remember to show empathy. These nazis are the way they are for a reason, don’t ostracise them for political correctness reasons”.
Yes. The Nazis were mostly elected not by extreme racists, but by people concerned with the economy. Concerns that the other parties failed to empathize with and address. Sounds familiar?
You don’t have to agree with them to empathize. But if you ignore their concerns enirely, they will turn elsewhere.