No such thing as an anti american

Published on October 19, 2004 By Solitair In Philosophy

You can't be anti-american. No one really can.

America is made up of it parts and so long as someone loves a single part then they cannot hate the whole.

Someone can happily hate Bush, hate the Us foreign policy, hate US tax laws, hate their stupid US neighbours, hate the US flag, ahte the US language, hate hollywood, hate McDonalds, but so long as they still love that single US friend, they cannot hate America. For that friend represents America.

To accuse someone of being anti American is to find fault in yourself, not in them. It's to admit that you suffer from an inferiority complex. That you can't take critism. It's to admit that you don't understand their position. It's to admit that you don't understand that they dislike aspects of America, not America.

Likewise to claim to be anti America is also to find fault with yourself. To admit that you don't recognise the good aspects of America. To admit that you have failed to look for those aspects. To admit that you are narrow minded and cannot seperate the aspect you hate from the entirity that is America.

Lets stop labelling people as anti-american and start discussing the actual aspects of America they dislike.

Paul.

Comments (Page 2)

Solitair

on Oct 20, 2004

Jill User,
Osama Bin Laden is a sick individual whose stated aims and reasons for attacking the US are poorly definied and poorly though out. He most certainly believes in hating the USA but his logic and reasoning for it are to do with their foreign policy. He makes no efforts to define what is wrong or what is right. He's willing to accept many aspects of America taht allow his family to amass vast fortunes. I would definitely call him a narrow minded psycopath who lacks the abiltiy to seperate hatred of the part from hatred of the whole. The problem is definitely with him.

I find your comments on communism interesting. Is it anti american to want to change the american political structure? You believe so, where as I do not. Would it be anti American to want to force such a change against the wishes of the majority? Again I say not. It's only anti current US political structures, and democracy. Such people may believe that America could be the best communist country in the world and still love their communist America. Lets take the totally unlikely situation that a majority did want it. Would it still be anti American? Or does anti American for you mean a view against that which the majority hold?

Paul.

T_Bone4Justice

on Dec 07, 2004

Hey, Paul..just popping by to see how you've been because I haven't seen or heard from you in a while! Hope all is well!

Molly0597

on Dec 08, 2004

Paul-

I like your article, and I agree.

I don't think American citizens can ever be anti-American. The reason I think so is because the US government leaves everything open to change. So citizens can disagree with certain American policies, but that doesn't make them anti-American. It just means they want a certain part of America to change. America isn't defined by the policies it currently employs, it's defined by the fact that the people have a say in changing them.

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