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To use a metaphor: A good parent does not blindly think their kids perfect angels while they run the streets committing petty vandalism and stealing from stores, they see their kid's shortcomings as a reflection of their lapses in their parental duties and take the time to address the bad behavior with appropriate criticism and punishment. Similarly a good citizen does not think their country is always right and good when it is plain that it is not. A good citizen loves their country enough to be critical and demand better.
Painting yourself as 'a good parent' looking at his child?
I'm certain any child would grow up secure and loved with a parent who claimed "has not [behaved] in a way that makes us look like a just and moral country in decades."
No, you have revealed yourself to be simply a boilerplate America hater.
And a government school grad....true?
Conservatives hate the government and most of the people who live here, how can you lecture me on love of country? You can't, conservatives only love the patriotic/militaristic image they have of America and not the actual country.
Painting yourself as 'a good parent' looking at his child?
I'm certain any child would grow up secure and loved with a parent who claimed "has not [behaved] in a way that makes us look like a just and moral country in decades."
No, you have revealed yourself to be simply a boilerplate America hater.
And a government school grad....true?
Conservatives hate the government and most of the people who live here, how can you lecture me on love of country? You can't, conservatives only love the patriotic/militaristic image they have of America and not the actual country.
Notice how I used your own words to identify your breed.
I do so enjoy watching insects like you squirm as you're forced into a corner, and claim the ability to explain what your betters think.
To use a metaphor: A good parent does not blindly think their kids perfect angels while they run the streets committing petty vandalism and stealing from stores, they see their kid's shortcomings as a reflection of their lapses in their parental duties and take the time to address the bad behavior with appropriate criticism and punishment. Similarly a good citizen does not think their country is always right and good when it is plain that it is not. A good citizen loves their country enough to be critical and demand better.
Yes, and strive to maintain ever greater goals, not rest on past accomplishments.
Good point, It's why we have continued to fall behind in so many areas and pretty much screwed everyone 30 and younger out of a decent future. The fruit of our past international meddling and knuckling under to narrow corporate interests is bitter indeed.
To use a metaphor: A good parent does not blindly think their kids perfect angels while they run the streets committing petty vandalism and stealing from stores, they see their kid's shortcomings as a reflection of their lapses in their parental duties and take the time to address the bad behavior with appropriate criticism and punishment. Similarly a good citizen does not think their country is always right and good when it is plain that it is not. A good citizen loves their country enough to be critical and demand better.
Painting yourself as 'a good parent' looking at his child?
I'm certain any child would grow up secure and loved with a parent who claimed "has not [behaved] in a way that makes us look like a just and moral country in decades."
No, you have revealed yourself to be simply a boilerplate America hater.
And a government school grad....true?
Conservatives hate the government and most of the people who live here, how can you lecture me on love of country? You can't, conservatives only love the patriotic/militaristic image they have of America and not the actual country.
American exceptionalism, conservative style, is just an expensive delusion of grandeur.
(with apologies to the paleo minority on the right)
"...conservative style, is just an expensive delusion of grandeur."
Expensive.....
Interesting that you use that term in the pejorative.....
...revealing in that Liberals are well known to fall well behind in charitable donations.
Now, real Americans, conservatives....
"Last year Americans gave $300 billion to charity. To put this into perspective, that is almost twice what we spent on consumer electronics equipmentequipment including cell phones, iPods and DVD players. Americans gave three times as much to charity last year as we spent on gambling and ten times as much as we spent on professional sports. America is by far the most charitable country in the world.
There is no other country that comes close.
https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2010&month=01
There is no other country that comes close.
ex·cep·tion·al (k-spsh-nl)
adj.
1. Being an exception; uncommon.
2. Well above average; extraordinary: an exceptional memory. See Usage Note at exceptionable.
3. Deviating widely from a norm,
exceptional - definition of exceptional by The Free Dictionary
I am always amused at how frequently I am forced to teach you the English language.
To use a metaphor: A good parent does not blindly think their kids perfect angels while they run the streets committing petty vandalism and stealing from stores, they see their kid's shortcomings as a reflection of their lapses in their parental duties and take the time to address the bad behavior with appropriate criticism and punishment. Similarly a good citizen does not think their country is always right and good when it is plain that it is not. A good citizen loves their country enough to be critical and demand better.
Yes, and strive to maintain ever greater goals, not rest on past accomplishments.
Good point, It's why we have continued to fall behind in so many areas and pretty much screwed everyone 30 and younger out of a decent future. The fruit of our past international meddling and knuckling under to narrow corporate interests is bitter indeed.
I'm still not seeing the exceptional part. Where is it? Maybe Americans are exceptional about buying their own advertising all the time.
"American superiority in all matters of science, economics, industry, politics, business, medicine, engineering, social life, social justice and, of course, the military was total and indisputable. Even Europeans suffering the pangs of wounded chauvinism looked on with awe at the brilliant example the United States had set for the world as the third millennium began." Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up
I'm still not seeing the exceptional part. Where is it? Maybe Americans are exceptional about buying their own advertising all the time.
"American superiority in all matters of science, economics, industry, politics, business, medicine, engineering, social life, social justice and, of course, the military was total and indisputable. Even Europeans suffering the pangs of wounded chauvinism looked on with awe at the brilliant example the United States had set for the world as the third millennium began." Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up
So then the phrase American Exceptionalism is just sort of a generic, ill defined, vague generalization. Nothing to really get excited about.
"Noam Chomsky, an American philosopher, political commentator and professor of linguistics (emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently answered RIA Novostis questions about the idea of American exceptionalism. Sometimes described as the 'father of modern linguistics,' Chomsky, 84, has authored dozens of books and has been an outspoken critic of US foreign policy.
Q: What are your thoughts on the ongoing discussion about American exceptionalism? Do you see most nations subscribing to some form of exceptionalism?
A: 'American exceptionalism' is a quasi-religious doctrine holding that the US is uniquely good and therefore entitled, or even required, to intervene unilaterally for the benefit of all. The doctrine is not really American. Just about every powerful state in history has advanced similar claims, typically leaving a trail of blood and disaster.
Q: What is this 'uniquely good' based upon? Is it institutions or values that determine uniqueness? Is it possible to project this uniqueness to other states or it is US-specific? Is the doctrine evolving under the pressure of the changing world?
A: Generally, powerful states (and even others) create mythologies about their'unique goodness.' Russia did too, right through its worst crimes. Hitler, Japanese fascists, and other monsters have done the same. So did Britain and France during their day in the sun. The most striking fact about claims to exceptionalism is that they are virtually exceptionless, and typically they have the features of deeply held secular religions.
Q: Is there a way to lead in the world without such a doctrine..."
American Exceptionalism Isn?t So Exceptional ? Noam Chomsky | Interviews | RIA Novosti
"American superiority in all matters of science, economics, industry, politics, business, medicine, engineering, social life, social justice and, of course, the military was total and indisputable. Even Europeans suffering the pangs of wounded chauvinism looked on with awe at the brilliant example the United States had set for the world as the third millennium began." Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up
So then the phrase American Exceptionalism is just sort of a generic, ill defined, vague generalization. Nothing to really get excited about.
If you're willfully stupid that is a correct statement.
How do Chomsky's intellectual accomplishments compare to Ann Coulter?"Noam Chomsky, an American philosopher, political commentator and professor of linguistics (emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently answered RIA Novostis questions about the idea of American exceptionalism. Sometimes described as the 'father of modern linguistics,' Chomsky, 84, has authored dozens of books and has been an outspoken critic of US foreign policy.
Q: What are your thoughts on the ongoing discussion about American exceptionalism? Do you see most nations subscribing to some form of exceptionalism?
A: 'American exceptionalism' is a quasi-religious doctrine holding that the US is uniquely good and therefore entitled, or even required, to intervene unilaterally for the benefit of all. The doctrine is not really American. Just about every powerful state in history has advanced similar claims, typically leaving a trail of blood and disaster.
Q: What is this 'uniquely good' based upon? Is it institutions or values that determine uniqueness? Is it possible to project this uniqueness to other states or it is US-specific? Is the doctrine evolving under the pressure of the changing world?
A: Generally, powerful states (and even others) create mythologies about their'unique goodness.' Russia did too, right through its worst crimes. Hitler, Japanese fascists, and other monsters have done the same. So did Britain and France during their day in the sun. The most striking fact about claims to exceptionalism is that they are virtually exceptionless, and typically they have the features of deeply held secular religions.
Q: Is there a way to lead in the world without such a doctrine..."
American Exceptionalism Isn?t So Exceptional ? Noam Chomsky | Interviews | RIA Novosti
They do say birds of a feather ......
So...anarchist-socialist-communist-lying bottom-feeder Chomsky is your champion?
Chomskys lifelong effort is to affirm the transcendent evil of America...This America-hater is your authority on America????
What sort of moron are you?
1. He has figured out how to make an exceptional fortune while living as a self-described anarchist-socialist dissident in a capitalist society he has described as a police state.
a. He claims to be constantly threatened with censorship, while publishing dozens of books.
b. He denounces the Pentagon as the epitome of evil, while making million from his work for the very same institution. As a tenured MIT professor he actually works for the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, and same is entirely funded by the Pentagon and a few multinational corporations.
c. His first book, Syntactic Structures, was written with grants from the US Army (Signal Corp), the Air Force (Office of Scientific Research, Air Research, and Development Command), and Office of Naval Research.
2. A self-described admirer of the Black Panthers, who says that intellectuals must combat all forms of racism, and complains that America excluded blacks from large parts of the country, owns a home in a town with a black population of 1.1%
Bill Frezza, A Lion in Winter, The Tech (MIT student newspaper), February 20, 2004
3. Chomsky was one of the chief deniers of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, which took place in the wake of the Communist victory and American withdrawal from Indochina. He directed vitriolic attacks towards the reporters and witnesses who testified to the human catastrophe that was taking place there. Initially, Chomsky tried to minimize the deaths (a few thousand) and compared those killed by Pol Pot and his followers to the collaborators who had been executed by resistance movements in Europe at the end of World War II. By 1980, however, it was no longer possible to deny that some 2 million of Cambodia's 7.8 million people had perished at the hands of the Communists. But Professor Chomsky continued to deny the genocide, proposing that the underlying problem may have been a failure of the rice crop. As late as 1988, Chomsky returned to the subject and insisted that whatever had happened in Cambodia, the U.S. was to blame.
a. This conclusion is the principal theme of what may be loosely termed Chomsky's intellectual oeuvre: Whatever evil exists in the world, the United States is to blame. His intellectual obsession is America and its grand strategy of world domination. In 1967 Professor Chomsky wrote that America needed a kind of denazification. The Third Reich has provided him with his central metaphor for his own country ever since.
b. The Soviet dictatorship was not only "morally equivalent" to democratic America, in Chomskys view, but actually better because it was less powerful. The chief sin of Stalinism in his eyes was not the murder of millions, but the fact that he had given socialism a bad name. Noam Chomsky - Discover the Networks
4.Let's take a look at this beast's center:
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the holocaust. Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence.
Chomsky letter cited in W.D. Rubinstein, Chomsky and the Neo-Nazis, Quadrant (Australia), October 1981, pp. 8-14; also cited in Werner Cohn, Chomsky and Holocaust Denial, The Anti-Chomsky Reader, Collier and Horowitz (editors), 2004, pp. 129-130.
You imbecile.
American exceptionalism, conservative style, is just an expensive delusion of grandeur.
(with apologies to the paleo minority on the right)
"...conservative style, is just an expensive delusion of grandeur."
Expensive.....
Interesting that you use that term in the pejorative.....
...revealing in that Liberals are well known to fall well behind in charitable donations.
Now, real Americans, conservatives....
"Last year Americans gave $300 billion to charity. To put this into perspective, that is almost twice what we spent on consumer electronics equipmentequipment including cell phones, iPods and DVD players. Americans gave three times as much to charity last year as we spent on gambling and ten times as much as we spent on professional sports. America is by far the most charitable country in the world.
There is no other country that comes close.
https://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2010&month=01
There is no other country that comes close.
ex·cep·tion·al (k-spsh-nl)
adj.
1. Being an exception; uncommon.
2. Well above average; extraordinary: an exceptional memory. See Usage Note at exceptionable.
3. Deviating widely from a norm,
exceptional - definition of exceptional by The Free Dictionary
I am always amused at how frequently I am forced to teach you the English language.
Maybe you should wonder why a nation as wealthy as the US would have so much need for charity.
Republicans would take food stamps away from the working poor, I guess in order to make them more appreciative of the canned goods they might be able to get down at the local food pantry.
Painting yourself as 'a good parent' looking at his child?
I'm certain any child would grow up secure and loved with a parent who claimed "has not [behaved] in a way that makes us look like a just and moral country in decades."
No, you have revealed yourself to be simply a boilerplate America hater.
And a government school grad....true?
Conservatives hate the government and most of the people who live here, how can you lecture me on love of country? You can't, conservatives only love the patriotic/militaristic image they have of America and not the actual country.
She accused me of being a gov't school graduate, too, because I had to educate her on the different branches of the military each having its own war college. Actually, I am a government school grad. Anybody who attends public school and/or a state college is.
How do Chomsky's intellectual accomplishments compare to Ann Coulter?"Noam Chomsky, an American philosopher, political commentator and professor of linguistics (emeritus) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently answered RIA Novostis questions about the idea of American exceptionalism. Sometimes described as the 'father of modern linguistics,' Chomsky, 84, has authored dozens of books and has been an outspoken critic of US foreign policy.
Q: What are your thoughts on the ongoing discussion about American exceptionalism? Do you see most nations subscribing to some form of exceptionalism?
A: 'American exceptionalism' is a quasi-religious doctrine holding that the US is uniquely good and therefore entitled, or even required, to intervene unilaterally for the benefit of all. The doctrine is not really American. Just about every powerful state in history has advanced similar claims, typically leaving a trail of blood and disaster.
Q: What is this 'uniquely good' based upon? Is it institutions or values that determine uniqueness? Is it possible to project this uniqueness to other states or it is US-specific? Is the doctrine evolving under the pressure of the changing world?
A: Generally, powerful states (and even others) create mythologies about their'unique goodness.' Russia did too, right through its worst crimes. Hitler, Japanese fascists, and other monsters have done the same. So did Britain and France during their day in the sun. The most striking fact about claims to exceptionalism is that they are virtually exceptionless, and typically they have the features of deeply held secular religions.
Q: Is there a way to lead in the world without such a doctrine..."
American Exceptionalism Isn?t So Exceptional ? Noam Chomsky | Interviews | RIA Novosti
They do say birds of a feather ......
So...anarchist-socialist-communist-lying bottom-feeder Chomsky is your champion?
Chomskys lifelong effort is to affirm the transcendent evil of America...This America-hater is your authority on America????
What sort of moron are you?
1. He has figured out how to make an exceptional fortune while living as a self-described anarchist-socialist dissident in a capitalist society he has described as a police state.
a. He claims to be constantly threatened with censorship, while publishing dozens of books.
b. He denounces the Pentagon as the epitome of evil, while making million from his work for the very same institution. As a tenured MIT professor he actually works for the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, and same is entirely funded by the Pentagon and a few multinational corporations.
c. His first book, Syntactic Structures, was written with grants from the US Army (Signal Corp), the Air Force (Office of Scientific Research, Air Research, and Development Command), and Office of Naval Research.
2. A self-described admirer of the Black Panthers, who says that intellectuals must combat all forms of racism, and complains that America excluded blacks from large parts of the country, owns a home in a town with a black population of 1.1%
Bill Frezza, A Lion in Winter, The Tech (MIT student newspaper), February 20, 2004
3. Chomsky was one of the chief deniers of the Cambodian genocide of the 1970s, which took place in the wake of the Communist victory and American withdrawal from Indochina. He directed vitriolic attacks towards the reporters and witnesses who testified to the human catastrophe that was taking place there. Initially, Chomsky tried to minimize the deaths (a few thousand) and compared those killed by Pol Pot and his followers to the collaborators who had been executed by resistance movements in Europe at the end of World War II. By 1980, however, it was no longer possible to deny that some 2 million of Cambodia's 7.8 million people had perished at the hands of the Communists. But Professor Chomsky continued to deny the genocide, proposing that the underlying problem may have been a failure of the rice crop. As late as 1988, Chomsky returned to the subject and insisted that whatever had happened in Cambodia, the U.S. was to blame.
a. This conclusion is the principal theme of what may be loosely termed Chomsky's intellectual oeuvre: Whatever evil exists in the world, the United States is to blame. His intellectual obsession is America and its grand strategy of world domination. In 1967 Professor Chomsky wrote that America needed a kind of denazification. The Third Reich has provided him with his central metaphor for his own country ever since.
b. The Soviet dictatorship was not only "morally equivalent" to democratic America, in Chomskys view, but actually better because it was less powerful. The chief sin of Stalinism in his eyes was not the murder of millions, but the fact that he had given socialism a bad name. Noam Chomsky - Discover the Networks
4.Let's take a look at this beast's center:
I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the holocaust. Nor would there be anti-Semitic implications, per se, in the claim that the holocaust (whether one believes it took place or not) is being exploited, viciously so, by apologists for Israeli repression and violence.
Chomsky letter cited in W.D. Rubinstein, Chomsky and the Neo-Nazis, Quadrant (Australia), October 1981, pp. 8-14; also cited in Werner Cohn, Chomsky and Holocaust Denial, The Anti-Chomsky Reader, Collier and Horowitz (editors), 2004, pp. 129-130.
You imbecile.
One's been called the most important US intellectual alive by the NYT.
Can you guess which, Bitch?
Conservatives hate the government and most of the people who live here, how can you lecture me on love of country? You can't, conservatives only love the patriotic/militaristic image they have of America and not the actual country.
She accused me of being a gov't school graduate, too, because I had to educate her on the different branches of the military each having its own war college. Actually, I am a government school grad. Anybody who attends public school and/or a state college is.
Little miss Saigon has major mental health issues an trouble grasping America
