Lothan said:

RodeoSchro said:

Ok.

Not offended. You probably have to feel some allegiance with the country and its name to feel anything personal about it, and I'm not exactly a patriot.

Additionally, it's a silly thing to be offended about. Absolutely silly.

RodeoSchro said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

"Amerika" I have no problem with.
When you write "rite" instead of "write" I clench my teeth. yanno.

PaisleyPark5083 said:

People don't have to be guilty of racism to be offended. I mean. You could be 'Proud to be an American' and be offended I guess. Which I am not.




Lothan how do you feel about it?? Does it offend you? Or you could care less?

TotalANXiousNESS said:

Just curious, exactly what would u be proud of?

JDInteractive said:

I think this is a great point. It's like talking about how fucked up your own family is, but you get upset when an outsider calls your mother crazy.

Graycap23 said:

I said I'm not.

A LOT of people are proud though. And thats their rite. You don't know ANYONE whos proud of their country???

TotalANXiousNESS said:

What do you mean Dani? Do I get offended when people use the triple K?

TotalANXiousNESS said:

it's okay to be proud, but there's nothing wrong with others speaking their minds, too.

Lothan said:

As an American are you offended by the spelling AmeriKKKa?

I'm asking you cause I know that you are usually sensitvie to all scenarios where stereotypes/offensive stuff is being used.

Where I am the opposite. Not easily offended.

TotalANXiousNESS said:

I try not to get offended by other people's stupidity or ignorance.

TotalANXiousNESS said:

yeah, kinda like when people get offended about being FAT

RodeoSchro said:

Don't make me go in there

Graycap23 said:

Sorry I know you didn't ask me, but I'm proud of Rock & Roll, Jazz, blues, R&B, hip hop, basketball, going to the moon, baseball, television, light bulbs...

The list of things I'm ashamed of is pretty long too.

horatio said:

But it's people who are fat that get offended by being called fat.

NDRU said:

Oh yeah. Thats stuffs cool. I'm not PROUDDD though. America is a pretty big term. What is AMERICAN????

I'm proud to be from the COUNTY I'm from. But American???

JustErin said:

yeah exactly

TotalANXiousNESS said:

I understand why people say it so it does not offend me.

horatio said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

that's a good point. the term "American" was kind of hijacked by the USA, but someone from Argentina is also American.

Lothan said:

He's basically now just agreeing with what we are saying...in his own little way.

JustErin said:

I used to be bothered by it but I'm not not anymore. It's a small mind that lowers itself to insults when it cannot offer up any actual debating skills.

JustErin said:

Oh. I thought it was one of his usual personal digs. My bad.

Lothan said:

I understand the reason and its a valid reason. I'm on the fence about it. Like I said. I'm not easily offended and I don't feel it applies to me. And as someone else pointed out, its a part of out history (for lack of better term since its not exactly HISTORY if it still exists).

But I do feel like its counter productive to spell America like that. Its a shameful part of our 'history', and not something I would like the COUNTRY associated with.

I wonder what ppl from other countries think when they see it.....

I'm not American (as you can suspect from my sig ) but I'm offended when people are unable to spell my country Sweden or my language Swedish correctly, and I consider people who can't spell countries/nationalities/languages properly stupid no matter which one it is.

JustErin said:

I do agree

I dont care either way
but it doesnt detract from the fact that spelling AmeriKKKa or what ever,
this way
is ment to get a rise out of people, specifically white people.
So whats the disagreement about?
It was previously stated that it was political statement like flag burning.
Whats the point of a 'political' statement?

Lothan said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

Dani, but it's not just "history". It's about the state of the country now.