>How are Blacks, communists and poets “counter cultures”?
You don't understand American culture at all if you can even ask this question sincerely.
You don't understand American culture at all if you can even ask this question sincerely.
In America, today, Black culture IS culture and communism isn't viewed critically for the murderously-bad idea that it is.
Most of the immigrants that fled here from communism are either old, boring or dead. Kids today rarely have the benefit of speaking to older folks who fled Cuba, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, the USSR and others.
Instead they're following influencers on Twitch and Youtube who have extremely privileged lives speaking from ignorance about communism with no pushback.
Then again, it's also characteristic of mainstream American culture to try to discourage people from acknowledging them.
And they tried and keep trying. A little recent refresher
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/30/560042987/russians-targeted-u...
Some people on HN always assume that this is a website a US-only audience. No, not all people understand American culture and that’s normal because it’s not universal. I interpreted the comment as a general affirmation, not something specific to a single country. I’m downvoted and almost insulted for asking a question.