"Wait, you're a Christian? Like, born and raised? Wow, um, you know what American history is like, right? You know the country has only existed for 250 years... Yeah it's fine I'm not like against Christianity or anything but like, you don't support the US or anything, right? The US military is responsible for countless deaths so you support Al Qaeda, right? And the actions on 9/11? Look, I really don't feel comfortable having a Christian in my DnD roleplay group unless you can tell me that you denounce America. No, not the American military, America. What do you mean it's complicated? How can there be hundreds of years of history when America has only existed for 250 years what do you mean? Yeah there's Christians from other countries but they're all connected to America. I went to a bakery the other day and found out they were serving American pastries so I left they need to know that's not okay. I wouldn't hire an American babysitter, how could I when the American military is killing babies, they're complicit and besides I wouldn't want them filling my kid's head with American propaganda. That's why I find it so hard to trust Christians unless I can find out their stance on America. And I can't trust even the 'good' Americans because they obviously support Trump and the military's actions. They live in America and he's the president so obviously they voted for him, if they don't like him then they should show that by leaving. Honestly staying in America just shows me that they're a secret Trump supporter even if they try to lie and say they aren't. Look at my art piece! It's a church burning. Well, obviously it's an American church so it should burn. Look at my patch I put on my battle vest, it's a big X over a cross. No, it's not talking about Christians! It's about America because America uses a lot of cross imagery. Well it's not my fault America co-opted the cross so now I just associate crosses with America, you should recognize that not every cross is about Christianity if someone is defacing a cross you should assume it's because of America. Americans and Christians are all privileged white people anyway."
If you are responding to this post with "Well, I hate America anyways" then you are either missing the point or being willfully ignorant. It would be absolutely insane to tell a random Muslim person you can't trust them unless they denounce Iran or the Taliban, or that you can't trust a random Saudi Arabian to babysit because obviously they're indoctrinated and going to fill your kid's head with propaganda. It would be insane to tell a Buddhist you can't trust them unless they denounce Myanmar and tell them they shouldn't be offended by an art piece of a burning monastery or a slash through a dharma wheel.
Again, the point of the post is that this would be weird to say about other cultures.
"I wouldn't hire a Chinese babysitter when the Chinese are killing Uyghur babies and they'd probably fill my kid's head with propaganda"
"I walked out of a bakery because they sold Persian pastries, they should know it's not okay to support Iran"
"I can't let a Buddhist in my DnD roleplay group unless I know they denounce the actions of Myanmar"
But people don't have a problem with saying the same thing about Jews and Israel. An individual is not their government and the line about Trump is meant to be a glaringly obvious example of that because you'd probably be a little bit upset if everyone you met assumed you support Trump and ICE and colonialism and everyone you met made you prove yourself. A person cannot control where they were born and they cannot control what the government does and putting people in a box because of it is wrong!!!
