RE: This is why people hate America
September 4, 2017 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2017 at 12:32 am by Amarok.)
(September 4, 2017 at 12:08 am)-Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 4, 2017 at 12:01 am)Tizheruk Wrote: Let me put this in chart form
The subject - International relations
The sub category - America(persons in or related to America)
The sub category of that- comments by Donald Trump (Person in and related to America)
The sub category of that - His(Trumps) idea that the world owes America (comments by a person in and related to America)
Then you're making a category error, being pissed at America when you're really pissed at Trump. You may or may not realize this, but Trump is not America.
No Trump is not America . I'm angry at Trump who just happens to be inside American .
Let's Try another Example
Subject -Desserts
Sub Category -America
Sub Category -New York Cheese Cake (A object inside or related to America )
Sub Category -Causes heart attacks
Sub Category - New York Cheese Cake causing heart attacks
I'm not blaming America for New York Cheese Cake Causing Heart attacks . I'm blaming an Object that happens to be American for causing heart attacks.
Let's relate this to my original comment
Frankly the only thing that has pissed me off about(A person who is American) America recently . Is Trumps-(The person who is in Category America. Or is an American and the action of said person in the category America) arrogance that the world owes America . Or somehow America is at disadvantage . Or that America deserves gratitude . That pisses me off .(This in no way saying that this is America as a whole holds this position. But a person within the Category does. Thus not assigning blame to everything in the category America merely pointing out that someone did )
We would never think that way . At no point have we every assumed the world should be grateful to us
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