You know how leading up to the World Cup everyone was line āoh no evil America with evil Americans who hate soccer and love guns and fascismā and then thousands and thousands of people from all over the world were posting constant updates about how Americans are nice actually and the media led them to believe complete falsehoods about America and Americans.
Can we do that, but for Israel, please.
As an American, I don't think this is a good thing. I don't think it was good that this happened in the US. I don't think capitalist pomp and circumstance hyping up a country that is currently in the throes of fascism is a good thing. I also don't think it's just, that only the global rich who are the ones traveling to the world cup are able to have that experience.
We can talk about the difference between a country and its people, but both the US and Israel are supposedly democracies, and those people voted in those governments. When does the banality of everyday evil become unacceptable?
How many indigenous Americans do you think those world cup tourists met?
I disagree emphatically. I think it is categorically bad when people of any nation learn to flatten groups into singular categories. I think it was vital for people to come to the USA and see us as a nation of individuals rather than just seeing us as a group of people whose government did bad things.
No matter how you feel about a government, any government, you cannot forget that individual people with complex lives make of a nationās citizenry. And making blanket assumptions about all of them is inherently based in prejudice. Thatās not the ābanality of evil,ā but rather the complexity of humanity.



















