The Connecticut school massacre: How the world sees us - The Week
Canada's The Globe and Mail:
There is something inexorable about the phenomenon of mass shootings in the United States. We have been forced to write about it with tragic regularity for years. We have exhausted adjectives to describe our horror and revulsion. We have stated and restated the problemÂ…
The time for platitudes is past, Mr. President. ItÂ’s time the U.S. cured its gun sickness.
What's your point? Could it be that this brand of criticism is tasteless? No...
No, your to worried about what they may think, but how many terrorist bombings have happened in the wonderful UK that we started telling them how they are to open to Islamic or IRA cowards??
Can you embarrass yourself somewhere else, please stop telling people your an American...
Accept it, your a fucking joke...
The point is simply this...
We are the United States. We are the predominant power in the world both economically and militarily without question. We have also held our society up to the rest of the world to follow with values like freedom, liberty and justice that we have tried to spread throughout the world.
What is it about criticism that sends the conservatives into a frenzy of "They are worse" "Who gives a fuck about what the rest of the world says?". Criticism is healthy. It is beneficial to see yourself as others see you.
We are not being criticized by countries that hate us. We are being criticized by countries that love and respect the US (Canada, England, Germany), countries that owe us a lot for what we have done for them. It does not mean they are ungrateful or disrespectful.
They are looking at our society from afar and saying....WTF is going wrong with the US?
Conservatives refuse to admit it.....Something is seriously wrong with our culture
Attacking those who point it out will not help