• cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why, because I said something is happening in the USA, you inferred that I said it’s happening everywhere in it, at all time? What amaze me is people that can derive immediate generalization from a single statement.

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      1 year ago

      Here’s what you actually said:

      As an outsider I’m always amazed at that “land of the free” that is insistent on censoring stuff, and “home of the brave” that will run through the mud someone standing for freedom and having principles.

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        1 year ago

        Yes. I know. I was there. Are you implying that none of these things I said happened in the USA happened in the USA? Because, they did happen, and it was there. Kind of like what I said and you helpfully quoted.

        My turn. Here’s what you actually said:

        I’m always amazed that people seem to think the USA is a monolith.

        Feel free to point where I said the USA is a monolith. Because while I did say that these horrible thing did happen in the USA, and that the USA is known to be “land of the free, home of the brave”, at no point I said, implied, or subtly hinted at that this was representative of the USA as a whole.

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          1 year ago

          Your phrasing does in fact imply that it’s commonplace and widespread. For example:

          that “land of the free” that

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          [that] “home of the brave” that

          These phrasings can only refer to the country as a whole.