There's a certain segment of the travelling public who need to have their junior TSA badges taken off them (preferably with clubs) before they fly anywhere
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And people wonder why it's a good idea to teach people how to speak "foreign" languages?
No, no. The only language you need to learn is English because clearly the world revolves around us English-speaking countries. And uh, the whole thing is HIS fault because he should've learned the language. Yeah. That's it.
on the one hand, it's easy to see it as stupidity and plain old racism.
But on another level it points to the way that people in the US are encouraged to externalize their fears onto "scary others". It prevents you from looking too deeply at the real state of affairs and realizing that the system is abusive and exploitative to everyone except the people at the very top.
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And people wonder why it's a good idea to teach people how to speak "foreign" languages?
No, no. The only language you need to learn is English because clearly the world revolves around us English-speaking countries. And uh, the whole thing is HIS fault because he should've learned the language. Yeah. That's it.
/redneck response.
Pardon me while I go find a flag to pee on.
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Bet the flag is made in China too.
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I am stunned by the stupidity here.
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on the one hand, it's easy to see it as stupidity and plain old racism.
But on another level it points to the way that people in the US are encouraged to externalize their fears onto "scary others". It prevents you from looking too deeply at the real state of affairs and realizing that the system is abusive and exploitative to everyone except the people at the very top.
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I mean, what "word in Spanish" do they think he said? It's just mind-blowing.
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