A moderator on Reddit’s r/greenland forum on Monday decided he’d had enough from American users who stop by to post their apologies 10+ times a day, writing in a post headlined “To Every American Who’s Sorry” that “We’re getting at least 10 posts a day from Americans apologising, and saying things like they didn’t vote for Trump or don’t support his policies. To be blunt, none of that actually matters. You can say you’re different from the rest of Americans, but to the rest of the world, that distinction doesn’t exist. To us, your country is a single entity on the world stage, and it’s threatening its allies. Think about how you view other countries. For example, Russian opposition doesn’t change what Russia does, because that’s their domestic politics.”
“The same thing applies to the US too, except you had the power to choose your president, and you may still have it. So instead of coming here nonstop to apologise on behalf of your country for your constant need for sympathy, focus on actually changing something while you still can.”
Hmmm… On one hand you can see where he’s coming from in terms of his subreddit being brigaded by American libs when it’s supposed to be by and for Greenlanders and about their local politics and culture. Sometimes moderators just want users to stay on topic, so in the practical sense it’s no doubt annoying as shit to see localized memes about dogsledding and pics of a new brewery in Nuuk being bumped by apologies that are meaningless in terms of impact on Greenland’s future.