Dear people:

Comparing Europe to the United States is stupid on so many level. Here are two of them:

Being better than the US isn’t a very hard competition. We’ve set the bar *very low*.

European society is ultimately founded upon racism and white supremacy. It comes off diff.

Like whenever people hear that I live in Germany, they’re always like, “is it better there?”

My honest answer: It depends on your perspective. Living in a Catholic city as a gay foreigner makes you susceptible to xenophobia and homophobia, the former I don’t experience in

Germans and Europeans used to get off talking about how they’re handling coronavirus better than we are, but again, *we set the bar ridiculously low*

Y’all opened up international borders when they should’ve been one of the last things to open, and now there are hotspots allover

And talking about racism and police brutality: Y’ALL HAVE IT, TOO

And when it doesn’t extend directly to Black people, it does to Arabs, Roma/Sinti, Turks - people who don’t look “White” in our eyes.

Minorities throughout Europe experience similar conditions as ours in

This thread isn’t meant to discredit either country, but by comparing countries to each other, we either get a sense of resentment or comfort when in reality, both areas (US and Europe) need improvement.

I defend comparing a country w/ a continent due to the EU as a major force.