It's pretty easy to keep believing in an absolute generalization as long as you refuse to acknowledge any counterexample.

They wouldn't be able to treat themselves as good by default, and this is why they simply can't accept it and need, absolutely need, to discount bad people as "Not real Christians".

Unlike, you know, them. Who are real Christians and therefore good people by default.

Which is why bad people being Christian is so unacceptable to them.

People being bad in spite of being Christian is already bad enough, but people being bad BECAUSE they're Christian is just a direct attack to the core of their self-image.

The thing is that they still keep the worldview that being a Christian automatically makes you a good person. And specifically, that being Christians makes THEM good people.

Which is why... 🧵

Tu primo el que tiene de hobby pelearse con la gente, tanto qur al final se van quedar sin gente con quien pelear.

Secretaría de Salud denuncia a activista por incendio en edificio de CENSIDA Organizaciones consideran que se está criminalizando la protesta, pues la denuncia contra el activista surge de una manifestación para exigir que se surtan medicamentos para personas con VIH

Another story about the Mexican government that might be interesting for you:

www.ejecentral.com.mx/nuestro-eje/...

(They're charging an HIV activist that has spent years denouncing the lack of supply of HIV treatments)

And the reason people have been reacting at you, is because that sentence points at someone more involved in upholding the lie than in fixing the reality.

And yes, you say it's aspirational, but that seems like a fantasy Americans tell themselves to soothe their conscience and set themselves apart from the rest of the world.

What America is supposed to be has always been built on externalizing oppression and lying to themselves about it.

"This is not America", but it has been for two decades for the prisoners of Guantanamo. It has been for over a century for central American nations with governments toppled to favor American corporations. It has been for people in your own country for it's entire existence.

American exceptionalism tends to judge it's country by intentions and goals, as if it's fundamentally different from the rest of the world and built on higher values, when it's built under the same principles and, at best, externalizing oppression and sweeping it under the rug.

Let me tell you why you have been getting such heated responses:

Because, even if you claim that this is aspirational, the aspiration has always been very limited in scope.

The American Dream has always been more about appearances and exclusion tha about reality.

Americans when their country starts treating them the same way it has treated the rest of the world:

American exceptionalism be like:

Bold of you to assume that carrying your passport will save you. They can shred your passport and disappear you just as well.

I read a post condemning the secession for liberal U.S. states, arguing "What about trans and black people in red states?", and while that holds some weight... what about the ones who live in blue states and are getting fucked over now?

At some point, it'll become a matter of saving what you can.

I have only read Redshirts, I probably should take a grab at the rest of his bibliography.

I really like that every few years @scalzi.com goes, “what’s the stupidest possible book a person could write?” And then he writes it and it’s great.

American excepctionalism: the belief that a dictatorship cannot happen in the USA, or that it will go away by the next election.

Guys, no one is guaranteed a happy ending, including your country. The belief that you are is helping the dictator.

The moment to resist is now.

"No escuches Abracadabra porque Lady Gaga es sionista!", pero siguen usando twitter.

Desaparecidos: al fin se escuchó el clamor Larga vida a Excélsioren su 108 aniversario 

Al fin, la Presidenta se apartó de la política de desdén de su antecesor hacia las desapariciones. Hizo bien, aunque fue innecesario seguir marchando con que hay una “campaña” contra su gobierno. Lo mismo hizo Morena cuando era oposición.

Mi Bitácora 👉 www.excelsior.com.mx/opinion/pasc...

Sweden are so bad at having fun that they need to outsource it to Finland.

Is under admiralty law? What if we put colons between the name and last name? Does this apply to the men of flesh and bone?

Why does the U.S government sound like fucking SOVEREIGN CITIZEN cuckoos?

Nunca es un buen día cuando te recuerdan que compartes país con Viri Ríos.

Pues curiosamente yo tengo muchas expectativas con respecto al sucesor. Casi el 80% de los cardenales son gente que él ha nombrado, y ellos van a elegir al sucesor. Y en su mayoría, ha ido por perfiles más representativos y universales y menos anquilosados.

(My apuesta personal es Luis Tagle btw)

No esto. XD

All Americans are to blame for Trump. The ones who openly support him, and the ones who are not doing enough to stop him.

If you don't want to be held reaponsible for Trump, overthrow him. It's that simple.

(Replace "Americans" by "men", and "Trump" by "patriarchy". That's how you sound)

Mientras tanto, en México, no sumamos siquiera 1GW adicional de energía solar en los últimos 6 años, a pesar del enorme potencial del recurso en nuestro país.

Yo siento que tienen dos propósitos distintos. Citar es más para ofrecer un comentario relacionado, más que para una respuesta directa.