I posted an article containing most of this already in my June 4 post on the old blockchain. I'm not going to bother including a works cited section here, since this is mostly an editorial.
I have heard it over and over since landing in America in January. I'll be describing some of the everyday nightmare I have witnessed abroad, doing my best to put into words the level of fear that permeates every aspect of every moment of the country I spent six years in, and some sanctimonious twit who has never left North America in their lives will nod pompously, pretending to understand, and say "well, we have that here too." I even had one moronic little twenty-something who was working for the Shreveport Regional Arts Council at the time (she has since moved on to the West Coast and is currently one of the leading instigators in the Portland, Oregon riots) tell me "I guess you've forgotten how bad it is over here," while claiming to be worldwise because she had been to the UK twice for short visits and to Belize once for a highly-supervised, tightly-cloistered mission trip with a bunch of teens.
And even now, it stops me every time. Why? Because they have a point? No. Because I feel like the man from Plato's "Allegory of the Cave," except that I'm trying to explain to the people in the cave that the outside world is worse. I feel like I'm trying to describe the desert to a fish, and the fish actually thinks he has a frame of reference to compare it to. Ergo, I have come to a conclusion. The year 2020 has shown me what America's biggest problem is.
America's problem...
...is that it's full of Americans.
And the most defining trait of Americans is "if we don't get our way, we get violent and break shit."
The killing of a man in police custody has sparked waves of riots across America. These rioters have achieved what no foreign foe has ever managed to achieve (driving the president into an underground bunker), and what no enemy has managed to do since 1812 (setting Washington D.C. ablaze). I won't bother describing the narrative these rioters have used, because basically everyone who is not living under a rock has already heard it. Instead, I'm simply going to deliver a simple message to the rioters, those who support them, and those who attempt to make heroes out of them by broadcasting their hashtags.
Every, God-damned, single, ONE, of you motherfuckers, is a hypocritical piece of shit.
None of You Have a Clue
You say you are fighting against "police brutality."
Bullshit! Where were you and your self-righteous cohorts when this Minnesota cop killed Justine Damond? I saw about four brief blurbs in two or three papers and then, crickets.
You say you are standing up for black Americans.
Bullshit! Tell that to this black American (a veteran firefighter) who worked for years in a career none of you have the guts to do, made more of a difference every day than the lot of you combined will in your pathetic lives, and had more courage in his left ass-cheek than you snot-nosed little fucks have among your entire rank and file, whose entire livelihood went up in literal smoke because of your God-damned "peaceful" protest. Tell that to Jasmine Kelly, a black American whose sister was shot by YOU, the rioters! Tell that to the family of Chief Dorn. Terence Williams explained it perfectly.
You say you are fighting against "white privilege."
Bullshit! Look around at your pasty white fellow protesters and see which one of them had "white privilege" when tear gas started flying. Looks like the notion of "the police don't do anything to white people" died hard when they shut you down.
You say you are fighting against "censorship."
Bullshit! The fact that you didn't have to jump any firewalls to advertise your openly seditious marches on US-owned social media casts that claim in doubt.
You say you are fighting for "justice for George Floyd."
Bullshit! George Floyd's killer was already on his way to jail before any of you even got wind of it. The only reason it took that long was because investigations against an on-duty cop have to be carried out by a higher jurisdiction of cop, which takes longer than it does for you or me. That's called bureaucracy. Get used to it. Also, when did mobs of looters and rioters become "justice?"
You say you are fighting against "Fascism."
Bullshit on top of bullshit! At this very hour, Hong Kong citizens are fighting for their very lives against a militant regime that causes people do disappear for years without benefit of trial for no crime other than posting memes critical of that regime. While they are standing up for this, the HK Police are firing live rounds at them (not tear gas or rubber bullets; live, military-grade rounds) and not a single cop in HK has faced a charge for this. In fact, they are getting medals for it. In America, every time a cop sneezes he is investigated. And you, with Starbucks Latte's in one hand and Marxist textbooks in the other, use the media you claim is being censored to advertise your intent, "peacefully" burn cities to the ground and swear it is "fascist" when the police fire tear gas (which has never, in history, killed a single Human Being, ever) to send you back home. The fact that a single one of you is alive after the rampaging reign of terror you have unleashed upon a country you never deserved to live in, disproves every single fucking word of your claim. In any other country on the planet, you'd have been met with tanks and machine guns (more on that later).
No. You are rioting for the same reason you rioted in Zuccotti Park, Baltimore, St. Louis, every brainless protest America has had in decades, and even three or four times a year for no better reason than the outcome of a fucking sporting event: because you are a horde of entitled little pisspots, bottle-fed the belief that nothing you do will have consequences, taught from the cradle to the grave that you cannot be told what to do, raging at the world because of your sad, pitiful, meaningless little lives, and you have your head full of self-important delusions about "changing the world," but haven't got a clue what you want to change it into, nor have you seen anything of what it is beyond the ivory tower you were born into.
This man from Tyler, Texas, hit the nail right on the head.
That, and nothing else, is what you are fighting for. Whatever "cause" you have imagined yourself to have, the sum total of everything you are fighting for is solely and completely encapsulated in that caption. You believe you can do whatever you wish, and that there are no consequences for your actions. The reason the police are there is to protect the citizenry, and YOU, violent raving mobs like yourself, are what they are there to protect AGAINST. Their job is to kill you. We pay them to do that. And frankly, I wish they would do it with more gusto!
The greatest irony of all is that these riots spanned the days around June 4. This is the 31st anniversary of Tiananmen Square, when protesters who never committed any of the acts of violence that have become your M.O, were rolled over by tanks. Not tear gas, not rubber bullets. Tanks. And you overfed, overindulged little first-world fucks, who no more have a cause than the rich schoolboys who took over a French University in 1832, have the cheek to act as if you are in the same category as they were, that what is being done to you is the same as what was done to them. If you tried the shit you are pulling now in ANY other country, you'd already have been slaughtered. I say that from what I have witnessed with my own two eyes.
And all the while, people living under ACTUAL oppression are even still looking at America with envy, wondering "what the Hell are they complaining about?"
The Solution
In China, the cops don't use tear gas, they use bullets and tanks. And they do this for protests less violent than you. And the cops don't face charges for it, they are rewarded.
In Europe, you disappear into a jail if you post anything on the internet that is deemed "hatespeech" against the foreign rapists prowling your streets. And the cops who arrest you don't face charges for it. They get medals.
In America, you throw molotov cocktails for hours on end and finally the police say "alright, break out the rubber bullets and gas grenades." And if you manage to get yourself killed, the cops get investigated and arrested, despite the fact that frankly they were protecting themselves from you.
The rock-solid, ironclad, undeniable FACT is that not one single US-born US citizen in over a century has ever known oppression unless they went abroad to find it. Not one of you motherfuckers has a ghost of a clue what a police state is.
But you know what?
You need one.
I look around America, the land of my birth, and I am disgusted at what I see from my countrymen. "The System" hasn't failed. "The Government" hasn't failed you. You, the American people, have failed. Your failure began when you raised this generation of pampered little pustules. It was compounded when you praised their idiocy on Social Media by spamming their hashtags and making them feel like they were actually doing something. The problems you have are not a result of "systemic racism" or "economic unfairness" or any of the other buzzwords Antifa and the media like to throw around. The reason America is in chaos today is because to put it simply, the US Constitution has one, tiny, flaw. It only functions if the people governed under it have a dram of common fucking sense. And it is clear to me, that condition is no longer met.
None of you deserve the level of greatness you were born into.
None of you deserve the wealth and power that was your birthright by citizenship.
None of you deserve the rights you cherish.
I wish I could take America's government, police system, justice system and Constitution and give that to the people of Hong Kong, and leave you, the American people, stuck with theirs. Then you would know actual oppression. I wish I could take that "war machine" you idiots think America uses and give it to Taiwan and the Philippines so they could repel the actual police state threatening them every day, and leave you spoiled Americans as weak and helpless as Taiwan and the Philippines are. Then the Chinese would show you what actual oppression looks like. In short, I wish I could take the pampered, comfortable lifestyle you empty-headed little fuckers are bitching about and give it to those who are more deserving of it than you are.
You have never, ever, known oppression.
But you need it. You, my countrymen, have spent the majority of 2020 proving to the entire world that you do not deserve the freedoms that underpin your ideology. Every single one of you deserves the totalitarian boot you idiotically think you have already been living under.
Because you know what? In a truly totalitarian society, all this "I'm gonna gather as many people as I want and to Hell with any virus 'cause you can't tell me what to do" crap, wouldn't fly. In a truly totalitarian society, all this "I'm gonna break some windows and ambush some cops and burn down some buildings and then swear the cops are being brutal when I get gassed" crap, wouldn't fly. In a truly totalitarian society, all this "hey, let's spin the story to piss off as many people as possible and broadcast what we know is bullshit on the evening news so people will riot and give us something to cover on tomorrow's news" crap, wouldn't fly.
In short, if you spoiled, entitled little fuckwits were living under the kind of totalitarian rule you imagine yourselves to be living under, you would not be allowed to rip apart the country built on the sweat and blood of better men and women than you will ever be.
At this point, I cannot believe I'm saying this, but I would rather be living back in fucking China!
Why? Because the US is worse?
No.
Because when I lived among people who were ACTUALLY oppressed, they had more appreciation for what they have than the witless twits rampaging across America right now. The day is never going to come when I am ashamed of my passport, or my American birth. But the day has come when I look around my country and say "I'm ashamed the rest of you motherfuckers are Americans."
...And I would rather live among oppressed people who think they are free, than free people who think they are oppressed.