As the fires in California finally come under the control of exhausted firefighters and over half a million people begin to make their way back into their San Diego area homes, some Europeans seem to have developed a hate for Americans such that preempts any thoughts of support or empathy for other human beings in a crisis.
In an earlier post I quoted from Sasha Abramsky’s article on the fires in the Guardian. The comments from some European readers of that article were composed of insane, drivelling anti-American nonsense, something which is actually construed by other Europeans as intellectual critique. Thankfully, Abramsky noticed:
“Some - thankfully a minority - of the comments on my article about the catastrophic fires in California were so breathtakingly stupid that I feel compelled to reply. …. It is a trite form of dehumanization that has, somehow, acquired not only respectability but coolness among large numbers of Europeans. …. It implies a worldview at the centre of which is profound hatred. A better world cannot possibly emerge from such an ideology.”
I think he’s understating the matter. So allow me to elaborate. These feckless European morons are without equal in demonstrating their inability to string a cogent thought together without revealing their fundamentally racist prejudices and hypocritical idiocy. These cretinous, sectarian assholes have at the center of their thinking not only hatred but hypocritical bigotry. The same prejudice they sanctimoniously fault others with is a cancer in their every waking thought, from sunrise to sunset, and is misconstrued as intelligence by others of similar bent. The lamebrains have become so warped by their own asinine ideology that everything is filtered by anti-Americanism, and every piece of American news can only be seen through its garbled lens. Is there a cure for this corruption of the mind, this diseased thinking, this mangled conjecture, this contaminated reasoning? I’m not sure, and most Americans won’t really care.
Much to the disappointment of these self-righteous dullards, most Americans are not hanging on their every critique, seeking validation or hoping fervently that Europeans will like them. Americans are confident in themselves and their nation, and don’t give a fuck about the opinions of anti-American Europeans too ignorant to better themselves with real perspectives on the world.
Read the article; it’s balanced and calm, unlike this one.
5 responses so far ↓
1 Rosalita Paglia // Oct 25, 2007 at 4:40 pm
“These feckless European morons are without equal in demonstrating their inability to string a cogent thought together without revealing their fundamentally racist prejudices and hypocritical idiocy. ”
These paragraphs are the reason I read this blog!
2 francis // Oct 26, 2007 at 7:04 am
“These feckless European morons are without equal in demonstrating their inability to string a cogent thought together without revealing their fundamentally racist prejudices and hypocritical idiocy. ”
of course we can’t.
Idiot
3 David S // Oct 26, 2007 at 9:52 am
John, you Americans are setting yourselves up for this every time you make ridiculous comments like those above. This typical arrogance is the reason for anti-Americanism, if you want to prevent it then start with yourself.
4 John // Oct 26, 2007 at 11:42 am
Thanks guys, David #3- Your first mistake is to call me American. I lived in Northern Ireland for the first 24 years of my life and have only been here in the States for the past 3. That makes me more European than American, so keep that in mind when you read these comments. Second, your implication that this kind of anti-Americanism is justified because of American arrogance is perhaps even more counter to your own ideology than anything else. Imagine your reaction to the claim that black people deserve the prejudice against them because of their attitudes. Wouldn’t you call it racist? You’re who I’m talking to in the above article. You are a hypocrite.
5 Stephen // Oct 26, 2007 at 2:23 pm
I’ve read several pieces of commentary today implying or explicitly stating that Californians deserved this.
Are these people any better than the Pat Robertson’s of the world who when faced with 9/11 blamed gays, feminists, etc etc?
Mad Christians call it “God’s judgment.” The secular version is that it’s “Mother Earth’s judgment.” The details differ, but the mentality is exactly the same: tough shit, you deserved it.
Disgusting.
S.
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