Re:
by jonahx on Sunday September 01, 2013 @07:29AM
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> Americans (no, not just the American government) think their actions of aggression have no consequence and that there's no blowback.
I know it feels good to direct your outrage and hate toward the general "American," but this is no different than someone saying things like "Muslims (not just extremist ones) are violent and want to destroy Western culture." That is, you are engaging in the same kind of prejudice that underlies atrocities like this.
Many Americans, and especially those reading HN, find this every bit as disturbing as you do and fully realize its repercussions.
> And no, it won't matter if they murder civilians, too, because that's pretty much US' policy overseas, too. So in their minds, fair is fair.
It seems to me that "fair is fair" in your mind as well, and this comment, in a different way, is as unsettling as the article.
I know it feels good to direct your outrage and hate toward the general "American," but this is no different than someone saying things like "Muslims (not just extremist ones) are violent and want to destroy Western culture." That is, you are engaging in the same kind of prejudice that underlies atrocities like this.
Many Americans, and especially those reading HN, find this every bit as disturbing as you do and fully realize its repercussions.
> And no, it won't matter if they murder civilians, too, because that's pretty much US' policy overseas, too. So in their minds, fair is fair.
It seems to me that "fair is fair" in your mind as well, and this comment, in a different way, is as unsettling as the article.