Ed Zitron

This post came up in conversation once and I tried to google and find it but every variation on the caption I typed in made google hit me with their "hey man, maybe stop searching for racist memes" followed by 10,000 explicitly racist memes and, crucially, not this post. While I am glad this is a feature google has, it definitely did not help me find this post (which is not racist) but it did show me a lot memes (that were on purpose racist)

Everything I've ever been raised to think about my nation has been a lie. Our conquests were not righteous. Voiceless millions were erased from history. Unknowable crimes have built our riches and been buried deep beneath our civilization. I can't tell up from down in this world, among the shattered national myth that was the only way I could make sense of it all. I need something to believe in. Oh wow these other guys say they've never done anything wrong. Cool.