evy

I'm not looking for a political debate here. I'm just venting about a situation and a conversation that has me slightly upset and thinking.

I've been having doubts about our relationship recently and him saying the things he did and me knowing he tihnks the same of me makes me less sure than ever.






So remember how I was planning on going to Canada in like two weeks? Well, I'm not sure I want to go anymore. The general attitude I got tonight made my stomach feel not good about the situation and I'm not really sure I want to deal with it.



It may not be a great country, or a smart one, or an open-eyed one, or an open-minded one, or one that likes to learn from the past real well; it may be too idealistic in its belief that the president is only there to serve the interest of his country's people; and I may want to move away for a while to escape what's going on at the present, but it's my home and I can only take you telling me how much it sucks and how stupid its people are for so long. Have you forgotten that I'm a fucking American too? When you make blanket generalizations about my country, you are making them about me too.

On another note, we aren't like Nazi Germany in the way you indicated. Hitler chose that group because he held a personal prejudice and he made his country men believe that they were superior in all ways and thus those people deserved to die. We actually had a bit of a reason to fear people from Afghanistan. It may have been our very own fault those people felt the need to join a radical group and do what they did, but it left many of us shaken and scared. We didn't choose that group completely abritrarily, though I'm sure you would rebute with, "Well Hitler didn't think he did either." That's not the point, Jewish terrorists never attacked his country.

And I know, we did move over to Iraq real quick and with seemingly little need, but scared people will believe what they are told. I'm not saying that makes it right, but it happens.



PS I'm not a fan of being compared to a mindless Nazi either, even though I know that wasn't your intentions. It's hard for others to really understand why that upsets me so much but suffice it to say that I lost a best friend in childhood over that fact because her family wouldn't let her play with me anymore because I was a "Nazi child" and she was a little Jewish girl. Back then it saddened me, now it angers me because my uncle Bobby didn't get killed in WWII figting on this side so that I could get called a Nazi. That's why my family left the country when they did!

I know, I know, you weren't calling me a Nazi, but to this day that comparison, especially blanketly aimed at ALL American - of which I am one - just hits a nerve and makes me cringe.