Stupid Americans

DG is French. And he actually has the gall to accuse me of bias or chauvinism.

And this is your best shot. Sad.

and a country like Saudi Arabia where I knew personally many people who were born in the country, who had never left the country or lived anywhere else, whose parents and grandparents had lived their whole lives in the country, and yet they were still treated like foreigners and not granted citizenship.

and then there are countries in between like most of the nations in Europe, many of which don't even kick Syrian refugees trying to cross the border. There is a range.

I'm not for or against any country. I don't even believe in nationalism.

And I almost always back up everything I say with facts, first. But I don't mind insulting those who have been insulting. I see no need to respect the disrespectful.

You're totally right about me responding in like fashion to those who I perceive as acting like jerks. And I've admitted this. It's not insecurity. It's impatience. And intolerance. People online often act like they have a free pass to be rude and say whatever dickish bigoted things they like. It might be unChristian of me, but I say give them a taste of their own medicine.

Anyway. Good day. I've got nothing against amphibians.

1. Larry made a point about some people on the list being what he would consider as not American.

2. I made a counter-point that they were fully American, because American identity is quite uniquely culture-based and divorced from ethnicity. Is and always has been a country of immigrants. As a point of contrast I specifically brought up the attitudes in Saudi Arabia.

3. gandalf swoops in to make a dickish comment about me being a chauvinist. A conversation we've had before that he has yet to produce and evidence for.

4. I shot him down. ...is "frog" really that offensive? If someone called me a "Yank" I'd assume they didn't mean it in a nice way but I wouldn't take offense at it.

5. kdc4, responding to my previous comment where I made a direct comparison between the USA and KSA, strawmans me by implying I said only the USA admits immigrants.

7. You enter the conversation, obviously take offense at some of the comments directed at gandalf, misread my comment about Saudi Arabia, strawman me again implying that I somehow said there were no racists in America, and make a generally obnoxious comment about American assholery.

This is how we got where we are. Plus there was some other comments on other quizzes made simulaneously I don't even remember now.

If you want a respectful conversation with me, come at me with respect and it will be returned. If you want to wave dicks, then, well, follow the pattern above.

"cool story, bro"

"come at me, bro"

"you mad, bro?

(pretty much anything that contains "bro")

"check your privilege"

any phrase that contains the non-word "butthurt"

any accusation of another poster being "salty"

"you are not entitled to my labor"

"too long; did not read" or, worse: "tl;dr"

any phrase with the term "humble brag" in it

"yep"

any phrase with the non-word "mansplaining" in it

or "white privilege" or "male privilege" or pretty much anything about privilege

most phrases that contain the word "snowflake"

which ones did I miss?

Also, one more thing about the American ethnicity: it only became an ethnicity after the country existed. The majority of other countries in the world were founded as ethno-states. So this is still unusual.