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1/ Stereotypes and image are formed for a reason. The movie Deliverance showed the horror of America's backlands. "Oh, it's just fiction": it's not. Twenty years later I lived in beautiful Blacksburg, VA, a university town in the middle of Appalachia: 
2/ The USA, which had been the "land of the future", the "space exploration nation" became the land of the horrific backlands, always waiting for a chance to destroy Civilization. Is this true? No. But there is a reason for the stereotype.
3/ For the whole democratic world, now, the USA is the land of #RightWing #DomesticTerrorism. This is going to stick for a while. It may take a decade to change. The democratic world can't understand the authoritarian American #GunFetish.
4/ For years, South Africa was the land of #Apartheid. The USA dodged that bullet just for so long because with the rising #RacistMurders here, it's the USA that comes to mind when the subject is racism and segregationism.
5/ Until everyone who is not complicit with the GOP here, in the USA, uses the expression #terrorism and #DomesticTerrorism for these shootings, the USA will keep collecting all the bad stereotypes. Finally, it may become The Enemy of Civilization.
6/ PS - let's not forget that the USA is the land of #ScienceDenial. It's the only democratic country where they have a voice. And a very strong one.
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