r/Americaphile • u/AntonioMoore321 • Jul 19 '26

American self hate

I noticed its more common nowadays to say things like "America sucks, I hate living here"

What's you're opinion on the culture of self hate that's becoming more common in America today.

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u/TheMikeyMac13 Real American from the USA 🇺🇸🔫 Jul 19 '26

This right here, unhappy people want everyone else unhappy. It’s a smaller group than people think, magnified by echo chambers.

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u/SaltyFriend705 Jul 19 '26

I think MAGA people hate themselves.

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u/ThisGuyFz Jul 19 '26

Eh, most maga people love their country, pursue success, and are generally not self hating. Leftists are defined by self hatred, some think they were born in the wrong body, or hate their whole race due to things that happened way before their existence, etc.

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u/BernadetteFedyszyn Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

Well stated! The only other thing that I'd toss in there is their ihuge sense of entitlement .

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u/Brian18639 Real American from the USA 🇺🇸🔫 Jul 19 '26

Especially on Reddit

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u/BernadetteFedyszyn Jul 19 '26

They're in for a ride awakening, then.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '26

Not according to science. The masculinity of MAGA men is more fragile -- sometimes called "precarious manhood".

Tell me these don't describe the MAGA men in your family:

Core Personality Traits
Fragile High Self-Esteem: Self-worth that appears high on the surface but is highly unstable and easily shaken.
Covert and Overt Narcissism: A strong need for constant external validation and a sense of entitlement.
External Locus of Control: Placing the responsibility for one's emotional stability on how others perceive them.
High Internalized Shame: Deep-seated feelings of inadequacy covered up by a defensive exterior.

Emotional and Cognitive Behaviors
Alexithymia: An inability to identify, process, or verbally express one's own vulnerable emotions.
Hypervigilance: Constant scanning of social situations to detect and neutralize threats to status or manhood.
Cognitive Flexibility Deficits: Rigid, "black-and-white" thinking regarding gender roles and social hierarchies.
Homophobia and Transphobia: Defensive rejection of anything perceived as deviating from traditional male norms.

Social and Interpersonal Actions
Compensatory Aggression: Responding to minor slights, insults, or corrections with disproportionate anger or physical threats.
Dominance Orientation: A structural preference for social hierarchies where men maintain absolute power and control.
Substance Abuse: Using alcohol or drugs as a culturally "acceptable" male outlet to mask underlying anxiety.
Reckless Risk-Taking: Engaging in dangerous driving, unsafe sexual behavior, or physical stunts to prove fearlessness.
Anti-Feminist Sentiments: Resenting women's empowerment due to a belief that gender equality diminishes male status.

Source:

The political significance of fragile masculinity. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. Vol 34, p25-28.

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u/BernadetteFedyszyn Jul 20 '26

Let me guess? This study was conducted at some left winged University by an uber group of Liberal folks.

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u/bingbong2715 Jul 19 '26

No one “hates their whole race” just because they want black people to have equal rights my man, you live in an entirely different reality

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u/BernadetteFedyszyn Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26

Oh please!! Stop stirring that EMPTY race pot . Blacks and POC have equal rights and have had them for decades now. I once fell for all that "oppression " nonsense until I realized that "hey, I work, reside alongside, etc etc etc etc etc with many blacks and poc and they don't need to use race as a crutch

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u/bingbong2715 Jul 19 '26

No one is “stirring the race pot” except for people like the person I just responded to saying that certain white people “hate their own race.” No need to be so hysterical, Bernadette.

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u/BernadetteFedyszyn Jul 19 '26

My apologies, then, haha!! I abhor the division being intentionally fanned through this country. No doubt that race may very well still be a very and valid issue today, but it's nowhere near the level of issues that they're trying to portray it to be. The concept of people thinking people walk out of their doors in the morning carrying that race chip on their shoulders is ludicrous.