Reddit reviews I Am America (And So Can You!)

Are you America?

For foreign readers, I strongly suggest I Am America (And So Can You!). This is probably the most fair and balanced text you'll find on American history and culture.

well, I am America! (And So Can YOU!)

The man is a genius.

Her father is Stephen Colbert?

Outside the increasing numbers of people using the blogsphere as an information source, these two books apply best.

I Am America (And So Can You!)

America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

That was rude! you downvoted me. Now I have to make all your 2s turn into zeros.

> What makes you think there aren't as many Arab people ready to defend their states as there are religiously instigated mercenaries hired to invade them? It doesn't take a terrorist to oppose American imperialism. Also, it's not that these soldiers enlisting out of religious military families believe it is the right thing to do as that would require some sort of justification, and simple authoritarianism is not nearly enough to stand on.

Awesome! I was being Socratic (making a bad point to make you make my real point)!

> You clearly have too naive a view of religion and too cynical a view of science.

"I know you are, but what am I?"

> No, my notion of [the world] the word modern includes concepts like, I don't know, antibiotics, and computing, and a whole ton of other really important things that these ancient god-fearing people could not even conceive.

^ bigotry

> I wonder what religious fundamentalism would have held them back from discovering much sooner than we did.


^ that's just ignorant. Maybe it was the industrial revolution beginning in European island states due to the geography and geological distribution of coal, which prompted the turn of the tide away from islam spreading west into Christianity and not the other way around.

> No thanks.

Read this and leave.