• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    During his presidency, yes. On a related note, when I would speak to someone in the UK during Boris Johnson, he would be careful to inject a bit of “Boris Johnson sucks, Brexit was dumb” to make his stance clear.

    Related, they sometimes assume I not only own a gun, but I’m armed at all times like some old west cowboy, depending on how little they deal with Americans day to day.

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        1 year ago

        Well, of course I didn’t have to clarify I wasn’t a supporter of President Trump while he wasn’t President…

        I pretty much have to be prepared for assumptions about any dubious American move in the global stage, and America makes a lot of dubious moves.

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          1 year ago

          If you want something to justify yourself about for life, I have one:

          “America is a continent with plenty of different countries, why do you people from the USA call yourselves ‘American’ like you owned the whole continent?”

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          Right, but my point is that there never has been a time in my life where someone hasn’t equated Jew and Israeli. I’ve had to defend myself against that since I was a teenager and that was the 1990s. And if people blame all Americans for the crimes of what is actually a minority of those Americans, then they shouldn’t do that either.