As a non American happily living _not there_. When dealing with foreign tourists at the individual level, the politics of the white house aren't even close to the top of my mind So don't worry, you're being a hypochondriac.
The holiday season is obviously coming, with its share of articles written by the intern who has to checkmark his internship.
> Over half of Americans reported they felt that U.S. travelers would be less welcome in other
So instead showing any animosity it's an article about a feeling about a hypothetical scenario.
It's the perfect example of pumping out anxiety and outrage and you look underneath and it's not based on anything specific.
American tourists are reviled because they are loud and pushy.
And neurotic.
lol, only joking.
I suspect that there's 1% of the population that vehemently hates me because I'm MAGA. But 99% of the people in the world love others and will look past my failure to reach out and converse with me.
Don't let fear keep you from meeting other people.
I prefer not to let the pathologically online people fool me into hating my fellow humans.
As tech skills become more accessible to learn, a greater amount of people adverse to or outright incapable of critical thinking end up here. Those people tend to have a large correlation with particular political views, and flag anything that challenges them.
But now, in past 10-15 years, there is also a populist right-leaning faction that has also begun to emulate this by attacking free speech and gatekeeping discussions too.
This is sad because illiberalism harms both the precepts of separating people from the problems/ideas and also shuts-down and marginalizes thoughtful curiosity. This, in turn, calcifies and balkanizes ideology without a safe public forum for inquiry and expression.
What's new is projective scapegoating of nascent geopolitical frustrations about a regime onto the largely powerless populace.
bookofjoe•7h ago