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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
This may seem like a cruel joke description for the US based on the reality of its sad history with Slavery, sexism, heterosexism, antisemitism, and other nasty 'ism you can throw its way but it is precisely WHY it is such a powerful BEACON of hope and dreams.
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African slavery was a European invention exported to America. The northern colonies were against it from the start. A civil war was fought in part over slavery.
There's a black family that's been living in the White House for the past 6 years - within the lifetime of lots of people who post on this forum that was literally unthinkable - but it happened.
Anti-semitism, the world's largest Jewish population resides in the United States and thrives, powerful in politics, finance, media, science.
Sexism and heterosexism, it's been a struggle but women and homosexuals have every opportunity to thrive and most do.
The ideals America was founded on still exist, if the rest of the world had the same the world would be better for it.