Because you now did it to yourself.

    • @TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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      102 days ago

      Also the US: Look at those foreign countries, bad guys because of what their government is doing regardless of whether it’s what their people want.

      • @AsheHole@lemmy.world
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        It kills me …I got into it with a colleague this morning while discussing this very topic. When I brought up that whatever the current trending “bad guy” is, we will always see an increase in hate crimes against that demographic in our own country. When I used the increased attacks on anyone appearing to be slightly middle eastern after 9/11 as an example she angrily spat out that “they’ve killed thousands of us.” And I had to remind her that she was literally giving an example of what we were discussing.

      • Drusas
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        Many, many Americans do not see things that way at all. You constantly encounter people saying that they like Chinese people but not the CCP, for example.