Whats the difference between “Un-American” and “Anti-American”?
It is the same as the difference between “undoing a wrong” and “anti-doing a wrong”. The former is correct grammar, the second is not. When newscasters, journalists, and politicians use the word “Anti-American” they are attempting to portray a dichotomy between “good” Americanism and “bad” Anti-Americanism, “good” Freedom-loving Patriots and “bad” Freedom-hating terrorists. In fact, there is no such dichotomy. Pax Americanism stands for many different things which are most often context-bound. In many cases, both contemporay and historically, Americanism has meant committing grievous crimes against humanity. For example, the Founding Fathers of the U.S. empire fought for freedom from England. They did not fight for the freedom of indigenous Americans, enslaved Africans, or women steeped in a patriarchal society. They arrogantly chastised the Germans for concentration camps against Jews but sent 70,000 Japanese-Americans into concentration camps in the U.S. and killed hundreds of thousa
