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The hatred for Argentina is getting out of hand (lemmygrad.ml)
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After this world cup, Argentina is being seen as a unique evil, and it's getting more racist and xenophobic. People don't know a single thing about Argentina but Argentinians are all being painted as racist and zionists, and some Argentinian players being violent is apparently the fault of the entire team or even the whole of Argentina. Argentinians are described as uniquely violent. This was not the response after Zidane's headbutt, or Nigel de Jong's karate kick in 2010. Some people are even calling for banning Argentina from the next football world cup. If I was Argentinian I would not feel safe in Europe. I saw a video of Argentinian fans getting beat up by Spain supporters in Spain after the final. Europeans and North Americans are just projecting their own racism onto Argentina and are using that to excuse being racist to Argentinians.

So if you meet an Argentinian, be extra nice to them. And if you're Argentinian: Te apoyamos

On the day of the final, I saw a group of Argentinians having an Asado in a local park, and when I left the park I saw another Argentinian wearing their jersey, probably going to the Asado, and I told him 'Vamos Argentina'. To which he replied 'Gracias'. It sounded like he was not used to hear this support.

Edit: But I don't deny the racism in Argentina at all. My problem is that Argentina's racism is being used as an excuse by North Americans and Europeans to project their own racism problems onto Argentina and to bet racist against them, also impacting the Argentinians that aren't racist

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[-] commiewolf@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 days ago

I think you may possibly be referring to me in this comment, and if so, I do not see at all how I said anything to come across as offensive to black people, if somehow it did come off that way I apologize and assure you that was not the intention, but surely you can see how you are refusing to look at the matter from an objective view? No country's problems exist in a total vacuum, and we cannot ignore the entire global context to condemn it based on the actions of proportionately very few people. That sort of generalization is not only un-marxist, it's verging on racist in itself.

because you know your grandpa is still wanted or what

Again, this sort of statement shows you have some widely propogated and quite frankly incorrect perceptions of Argentina that are not at all fair to use as a metric to condemn an entire country. Argentina did not invite Nazis to go and live there and work in their government and military, but a lot of western countries explicitly did this, but do not suffer the same amount of offhanded stereotyping.

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