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[NEWS] basketball team in america forced to apologize for wearing red white and
otto-san:
--- Quote from: KickFlow on March 13, 2017, 10:07:36 PM ---so you come to the US from your stuffty country and then when people chant "US" it's offensive? jesus christ lol
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it can be construed offensive if you're doing it directly at them as though you're making some kind of statement
KickFlow:
--- Quote from: otto-san on March 13, 2017, 11:59:06 PM ---it can be construed offensive if you're doing it directly at them as though you're making some kind of statement
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what statement
Nonnel:
--- Quote from: KickFlow on March 14, 2017, 12:47:30 AM ---what statement
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--- Quote from: McZealot on March 13, 2017, 06:31:34 PM ---kinda suggesting that these players weren't american.
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otto-san:
--- Quote from: KickFlow on March 14, 2017, 12:47:30 AM ---what statement
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idk, statements of similar caliber to "go back to your own country"
like idk it seems fairly obviously weird to me that people would chant USA at migrants, or people who they suspect are migrants, for no reason
SWAT One:
--- Quote from: Decepticon on March 13, 2017, 07:20:06 PM ---ehhh what did they corner them or something? cause i'm not sure how that could be seen as targeting them or something like that
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When you're in the in-crowd, you're not always conscious of your actions. For someone I presumed was politically and historically aware, I would think you would know a thing or two about America's role in the post-Pax Britannica Middle East.
--- Quote from: KickFlow on March 13, 2017, 10:07:36 PM ---so you come to the US from your stuffty country and then when people chant "US" it's offensive? jesus christ lol
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Although I don't know much about your knowledge of history and politics in the Middle East, I once again make the remark that we left quite the ugly footprints there. I don't find it surprising that they are adversed to the kind of patriotism we exalt here, and Decepticon, this goes for you, too.
If Turks were chanting Turkish supremacy slogans in the presence of Serbs, they wouldn't roll over in submission. If someone started glorifying Pinochet in Mexico, especially in the midst of its older generation, they wouldn't roll over in submission. If you went to Taiwan, calling for a reunion of China with the PRC as the true China, they wouldn't roll over in submission. If you went to Western Ukraine or Kazakhstan, glorifying the Soviets, to Armenia, exalting Azerbaijan and Turkey, to the land of the Kurds, exalting Iraq and Turkey... I know that leftists in America drive "cultural sensitivity" more than beating a dead horse, then being arrested for desecrating a corpse of said horse, were jailed for 60 days when in the mean time the horse's body was taken away, and then immediately upon release sought out to beat the dirt where the horse once lay—Everyone has beef with one another. The problem with saying "what's the problem" here in this scenario is more revolving around the fact that the wound is still fresh and ever-festering.