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American Apologies

http://www.american-apologies.com/

Here's a tumblr that I stumbled upon. It basically lists (currently at #91) things that America(ns) should be sorry for. Like when you're in a history class and you learn that they sent Japanese Americans to internment camps while at the same time sending them to the front lines of Europe as disposable soldiers. Or that for forty years, about 400 impoverished African-Americans with syphilis were monitored as a medical study and not given penicillin after it was proven to be the cure. And there's other stuff like mega conservatives and blind faith radicals. So at first, I was pretty angry. It just reminded me as to why I have certain opinions on certain things. But as I looked through all 91, reading the ones that sounded interesting, it became more and more amusing. Like japanophiles, hipsters, and emo, all three of which I have been called by someone at one point in my life. Or Creed. Or extreme advertising.

Honestly and literally: America rules.

4 comments:

  1. "Honestly and literally: America rules."

    Woah, such a clever pun.

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  2. Anything about Hawaiians on that list?

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  3. I'm just gonna choose not to read it and be ignorant of any wrongs we committed.

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  4. heyyy jacob! its sharon (from Levi's). I stumbled upon your blogspot through a couple of others...small world!

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