I wish you people could see how this looks from the 2nd world over here.

Alex Moody

Sep 28, 2017·1 min read

I wish you people could see how this looks from the 2nd world over here. It’s surreal to us, that kind of over-zealous patriotism is the stuff of asylums, where I come from.

Alex Moody

Secular thinker with an empathy compulsion. Anxiety-nerd. Certified Crazy Cat Lady.

…, which were little more than propaganda justifying conquest, colonization, and “manifest destiny.” Do any of the super-patriotic Americans and Texans care to remember the near-genocide? Denying or ignoring America’s bloody-racist history is why the U.S. flag is seen by many to be a symbol of hypocrisy. That’s one key reason the protests continue to happen, now and in the future.

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