I hate everything our country has stood for because it stands for hate and bigotry. It says it stands for freedom, but there’s always so many caveats that it doesn’t even resemble it in the end for most people, so I can’t honestly say that it ever actually stood for it in the first place.
Even our founding fathers only stood for freedom for themselves and other white men. I understand that was the norm back then, but I still don’t think it needs to be respected just because the idea that women or black people deserved rights was so foreign back then. If anything it just means that you shouldn’t fully respect anyone from before today’s idea of justice was established and accepted, just like future people will likely look to us and say we weren’t accepting enough to earn their respect.
I hate everything our country has stood for because it stands for hate and bigotry. It says it stands for freedom, but there’s always so many caveats that it doesn’t even resemble it in the end for most people, so I can’t honestly say that it ever actually stood for it in the first place.
Even our founding fathers only stood for freedom for themselves and other white men. I understand that was the norm back then, but I still don’t think it needs to be respected just because the idea that women or black people deserved rights was so foreign back then. If anything it just means that you shouldn’t fully respect anyone from before today’s idea of justice was established and accepted, just like future people will likely look to us and say we weren’t accepting enough to earn their respect.