Amidst the usual “how to survive Europe as an #UglyAmerican” fluff is the admonition that Italians “don’t put ice in our #wine.” 🤔 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/travel/americans-europe-heat-wave.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

The latter just means ‘Black’, but it’s an ugly word due to who used it – and the how, and what – over hundreds of years of subjugation. Really, it’s the people using it who are ugly inside.

The former is a category of belief – people choose to continue such beliefs – and again, it’s the (same) people who are ugly inside.

— ‘Marjorie Taylor Greene told reporters being called a white supremacist was the same as a Black person being called the N-word.’

#uglyamerican

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/18/marjorie-taylor-greene-white-supremacist-label-n-word

But the U.S. isn't like every other nation. We're "exceptional." Exceptionally ignorant, exceptionally insecure, and exceptionally selfish. #UglyAmerican #ThoughtsAndPrayers #GunViolence

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-r-1850018910

Sorry to read this example of #UglyAmerican #oligarch type behavior. #NewZeland #Fireworks #TonyMalkin

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/burned-the-hill-down-billionaires-runaway-fireworks-spark-new-zealand-furore