Why do I hate America? | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Jan. 6, 2014

“Why do you hate America?”

This is a remarkably easy question to provoke. One might, for instance, expose elements of this nation’s brutal foreign policy. Ask a single probing question about, say, U.S. complicity in the overthrow of governments in Guatemala, Iran, or Chile and thin-skinned patriots will come out of the woodwork to defend their country’s honor by accusing you of being “anti-American.”

Of course, this allegation might lead me to ponder how totalitarian a culture must be to even entertain such a concept, but I’d rather employ the vaunted Arundhati Roy Defense™.

As Ms. Roy asks: "What does the term 'anti-American' mean? Does it mean you are anti-jazz or that you're opposed to freedom of speech? That you don't delight in Toni Morrison or John Updike? That you have a quarrel with giant sequoias?”

When pressed about my “hate” for “my” country, I sometimes reply: “I don’t hate America. In fact, I think it’s one of the best countries anyone ever stole.”

(insert rimshot here)

One-liners aside, I do have a confession to make: If by “America” you mean the elected/appointed officials and the corporations that fund/own them, well, I do hate that America -- with passion and plenty of justification.

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