Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored...
by SamReidHughes on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:10PM
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A small minority of Americans do that and when talking about large populations, it goes without saying that we’re not talking about population distributions in an absolutist sense.
Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored...
by filoleg on Friday August 02, 2019 @02:55PM
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It isn't about how many people do that, it is about how many people can do that publicly without any repercussions towards them from the state. And I would say, in the US that proportion comes to around "pretty much all of them".
Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored...
by SamReidHughes on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:15PM
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Actually that is not what this conversation is about.
Re:Hong Kong protests: 'I'm in Australia but I feel censored...
by pertymcpert on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:10PM
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No not a small minority.
Yes, this commonly occurs in fact. Americans trash their own country aggressively, routinely all over social media, for its flaws and past mistakes. See: Twitter, Reddit or Imgur comments every day of the week.
We pay sports athletes and celebrities tens of millions of dollars and they regularly trash the US for its flaws and past mistakes. They do so all over social media, routinely, and with few repercussions (essentially none from the government, and few from social blowback).
How many famous millionaire Hollywood celebrities would you like me to quote - eg from their tweets - saying they somehow hate the US or wish to leave?