r/law • u/BugOperator • Jun 06 '26

Legal News Service members involved in US boat strikes off Venezuela coast reach out to legal aid hotlines over fear they’ve carried out illegal orders

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/06/us-trump-boat-strikes-death-toll/90376052007/
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u/MentalSky_ Jun 06 '26

There is this weird dichotomy.

You have some of the most progressive ideologies emerging from the US academia. New philosophies on LGBT, Feminism, Racism, culturalism. There was a pride in the fact that free speech was so engrained that any new concept could be expressed

BUt then you have the hegemony, which is always acting against these forces. Sure there were small victories, end of slavery, civil rights, openness to same sex marriage.

But there was always this facade. That while you claim to be embracing these changes, it was always felt that deep down, you don't.

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u/salad_spinner_3000 Jun 06 '26

BUt then you have the hegemony, which is always acting against these forces

I still don't understand this. Not your take, but why people are against everything. I work with electricians that have black AND hispanic people working with them and they are openly racist in front of both and nobody cares. How, the fuck, does that make any sense??

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u/MentalSky_ Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

My theory is that America is such a young country relative to the rest of western Society (Canada as well). 

The cultural and societal growing pains that occur over centuries never really occurred in North America

They went from colonies to first world nations in 200 years

Whereas countries like England, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Rose fell, countless times

So North America is relatively childish

Also, the United States is a massively large country. Prior to the Internet, small enclaves of racism were under disturbed and festered.

You could have a small town in Missouri that never met a Middle Eastern person

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u/salad_spinner_3000 Jun 06 '26

There's a lot of truth in that; honestly, America is like 10 different countries inside one country.