Sitting and drinking my morning coffee, a friend stopped by after dropping his son off at school. He drops by often. Good family friend. Very nice guy. I like him. But this morning instead of friendly conversation, he broke into an anti-American tirade claiming America has done more to destroy the world than any other country. It uses more natural resources than any other country. It has robbed countless countries of their resources, and never done anything positive in exchange. America is arrogant, a bully, selfish, rascist, abuses peoples, abuses nations, greedy, uncaring, and just plain awful to everyone.
Among nations America is the worst selfish society that has ever existed on the face of the earth. I'm sure he had more to say, but with his obvious hatred of America I knew I had heard enough. So I just tuned him out, waiting for him to finish. Got up from my chair and walked away saying "If you really believe all that, then you have been brainwashed by the left-leaning liberal media". I wanted to avoid any confrontation. He had stated his beliefs and he is entitled to those beliefs in America. America supports free speech, freedom of religion, and the right to non-violent assembly. But where did he get all those opinions ? Somewhere he must have seen and heard "trusted" sources that discussed or reinforced these ideas.
I sat concerned for a little while trying to understand how someone's views of America could be so different from my own. Of course, my thoughts immediately focused on America's education system, books, state-run media (previously MSM), newspapers, magazines, television shows, and major hollywood films. All these components are constantly creating hatred for America: textbooks, NYTimes, WaPo, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, NPR, NEA, MTV, VH1, ACLU, History Channel, PBS, films, schools, colleges, and television shows. There's plenty more, too numerous to name them all.
I sat concerned for a little while trying to understand how someone's views of America could be so different from my own. Of course, my thoughts immediately focused on America's education system, books, state-run media (previously MSM), newspapers, magazines, television shows, and major hollywood films. All these components are constantly creating hatred for America: textbooks, NYTimes, WaPo, Newsweek, Time, Rolling Stone, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, NPR, NEA, MTV, VH1, ACLU, History Channel, PBS, films, schools, colleges, and television shows. There's plenty more, too numerous to name them all.
Here are some of the beliefs of America haters that have come directly from the media outlets mentioned above:
