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In the USA, American means from the USA. In South America, American means from North or South America.
And what languages are most South Americans native speakers of?
And what about the rest of the Anglo world? In English America means the US. Someone from South America can't be speaking to a native English speaker in English and expect them to interpret it as the continents.
In Spanish and Portuguese América means both continents, and that's fine. But the meaning on based in language.
"Look, I'm not racist. I voted for Obama. I even have black friends. I'm just saying..." - lib
That was supposed to be a common lib quote. Apologies for the confusion
Thomas Jefferson wasn't racist because he had a black gf
(Obligatory I know it was not consensual, fuck that guy and Amerika)
If Thomas Jefferson was temporally transposed to the 21st century, he would definitely use that excuse to gain argument clout just like Matt Gaetz with his Helper-Son Nestor.
E: Obligatory "America delenda est"
E2: Very high right now and imagining Thomas Jefferson as a Reply Guy on Twitter with wraparound sunglasses while keeping the powdered wig
" 'The Truth' looks self-evident and the founding fathers seem to have eaten their macaroni and cheese! "
i don't think you'll find anyone here who even supports the institution of u.s. president, let alone anyone who thinks any of them weren't racist
try posting this on r/neoliberal or something instead, so we can laugh a little bit
/r/neoliberal will find some way to spin it such that racism is somehow good, ackshually, and proceed to gush about how "articulate" Obama was.
William Henry Harrison may have been racist, but he atoned by dying almost immediately after taking office
He got elected, however, because of his popularity from fighting in Tecumseh's War. Mans had native blood on his hands
The US presidency breaks into rough periods of racism. You got your slave owners, presidents who ignored or stoked the Civil War, the war itself and the clusterfuck of Reconstruction, followed by the nadir of race relations that bring us up to WWII, after which is a grab bag of active racists and POTUSes (POTI?) who simply uphold the wheezing racist engine as it slowly kills us all.
Fuck the POTUS. All my homies hate the POTUS.
That’s exactly what I was thinking lol. He seems like a decent guy and I haven’t read up enough on him to know the shitty things he's probably said or done.
All the founding fathers, caveat being they didn't consider slaves to qualify as human
He defended the redcoats that killed Crispus Attucks and others in the Boston Massacre just because of liberal principle. He's on the lower end of the racist meter, but still.
I feel like "everyone has the right to a defense attorney, no matter who they are or what they did" is one of those good liberal principles, actually.
I'll give you that. Slaves did build the White House under his presidency though.
He and Ben Franklin were probably the least bad founding fathers, but they still kinda sucked.
Thomas Paine was pretty cool though.
Me. Because I swear if you elect me president I won't be racist
sarcasm i'd never be president, please don't ban for joke
