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Against Me! -- T.S.R. [This Shit Rules] |
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alright, let me start off this goddamn INSANEJOURNAL by exercising my freedom of fucking speech.
SOMETIMES, I HATE THIS COUNTRY.
ok, most of the time. it's built on these *wonderful* principles (that really are only ok) that have been raped and rewritten and tortured and twisted and thrown in a prison cell for up to a year on no charges other than "possible terrorist activity." this country is built on and for and by greed. classism, material wealth, fucking bullshit.
since first grade, i've been taught that america is a "melting pot," that there are all these different cultures living together and getting along. ok, lately it's been changed to a "tossed salad," and all these different cultures are there and "rubbing elbows" but you can still pick them out individually and they still retain their own individual properties... whatever. either way, it implies we're all getting along, and that any culture that is not white, straight, rich and christian is not ostracized [uh ok]. and then i hear
Welcome to America, now speak the language.
yes, that's what's got me so cheesed. "welcome to america, now speak the language." puh.
what other country demands you learn their language? what country does not write their road signs in english as well as in the native language? what kind of goddamn MELTING POT demands one language? i want a bumper sticker or t-shirt that says "welcome to america, speak whatever language you want. we're all too rude and paranoid to talk to you anyway." probably too long for a sticker.
i'm just so sick of this ethnocentric, elitist bullshit. "socialized medicine?! well hell, next we'll all be goddamn communists!" *fires shot gun, kills youngest son* "welp, survival of the fittest and shit. ma! we gotta make another one!" we call ourselves "the greatest country on earth," "the land of the free, home of the brave," or whatever. we call our president "the most powerful man on earth," and "the leader of the free world," and *declare* [or not] war to "spread democracy" [read: gain control over oil] in iraq because we're too goddamn stubborn to find a new way to fuel our cars.
WHERE DO WE GET OFF.
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