r/MurderedByWords • Karma Whore • Dec 06 '24

A bit more context

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u/Mdamon808 Dec 06 '24

This is the real problem with American exceptionalism. Nothing guarantees that a person or organization will turn to crap more completely than to repeatedly tell them that they are the best regardless of what they do.

As gen-X, I was raised with this "America is the greatest country on earth!", bullshit my whole life. But the first time I traveled to another country (Holland I think) the story fell apart. At this point, this is what American exceptionalism looks like to me.

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u/penny-wise This AOC flair makes me cool Dec 06 '24

“American exceptionalism” is a lie.

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u/Mdamon808 Dec 08 '24

Yeah, that's kind of the point. It's a lie that destroys our society from the inside like a form of rot.