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Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits
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Why are non-americans so fucking pretentious on the Internet?
On what basis do you suppose one is worse than the other? I think both are
I just thought it was fair game to make a stupidly sweeping assumption. I don't actually think all non-americans are pretentious. But the loud ones here on Lemmy sure love to make broad sweeping statements about entire countries.
Hah. I should have refreshed. I just wrote a small novel theorizing you might have been making that exact point. Cheeky ;) I found it amusing - even if the point of it got buried (but made for another great example...)
I am non-american and pedantic though not pretentious, be it a counterexample *_*
Food for thought: as polarizing as this statement is - it's not all that different from the cheap (generalizing) shot at OP for not having a broad enough statement.
I'm uncertain if that's what @roofuskit@lemmy.world was going for ... but regardless: either by the statement itself or by the apparent downvote pummeling he got - demonstrates perfectly that nobody likes the feeling of getting singled out simply because of their grouping.
It's almost always a dick move. Unless the group in question is a hate group or nazis... because fuck them. Topically - this behavior was (and is) championed by aforementioned groups.
Put simply: we can do better. Better than reddit at least, right?