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Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2025
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Because we live here enjoying the fruits of all the evil/bullshit/indifference without doing enough to prevent shit or change shit (probably underhandedly excusing people doing nothing about it)
The whole I'm not at fault thing is believing the big lie. "I didn't commit the crime myself so does standing here and watching it happen really make me morally responsible?" Yeah it absolutely does. Its reasonably easy to help and your just unwilling to inconvenience yourself morally, mentally or physically.
Simply EXISTING here enables the machine that makes all the evil happen, and we feel that. And, without you accepting that being ok yourself, that would change and we are aware of that. But taking yourself out of that requires not enjoying life as much as other people or "everyone else" as it is sometimes thought
So its because people feel like they are taking advantage of the situation with our cheap goods made by slave labor and easy lifestyles built on the backs of 10,000 poor people and we figure we shouldn't be doing that. Kinda morally reprehensible no matter the justification we sell ourselves you know?
So, the situation sucks and yeah, that makes some people feel bad about all that (if youre not an ostrich person burying your head in the sand so you don't have to feel ashamed that is)