TwilightPrincess wrote:
I didn’t think that attacks were allowed on a group of people. The title of the thread sounds like an attack to me.
It’s saying that a specific group of people is stupid.
I’m not patriotic, but I find attacks on Americans (and other groups of people) tiresome, especially since it happens a lot. What if we switched out Americans to a different demographic? Would it be allowed then? I doubt it.
I actually see this more as social commentary than an attack on Americans. However it's an American commentator addressing a group of Americans (although Washington is on the border so yeah there could have been one or two Canadians there). The same scenario could occur in many other large countries except perhaps hyper-patriotic countries in which the person speaking might be accused of treason.
This may be more about the fact that America is so large and culturally isolated that Americans often assume problems in their society are somehow uniquely American. This may have become worse after WWII when many Americans, beginning with my parents' generation, travelled to Europe and experienced things they thought superior such as bidets or Haute Cuisine and started putting down aspects of their domestic culture. Despite the fact that most of them would have become profoundly homesick if they had to live in any one of those countries for more than a few months, especially back then when Europe was still recovering from the War and life for most people was pretty basic.