The cultural divide in America was on full display with a top-trending hashtag #NothingMoreAmericanThan.
Obviously created with the intent to make fun of the country with sarcastic tweets about “Murica” and social criticism, it also became a lightning rod for patriotic counter-points that threw into relief the highly critical nature of the hashtag.
Here are some of the tweets of a critical nature:
#NothingMoreAmericanThan white cops getting away with murder
— pol / 1 day (@addie_montgomry) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan race fuelled police brutality
— chloe (@weechl0) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan being black and getting pulled over for loud music when your speakers blew out a week ago…
— Don 3.0 (@89BOOMer) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan remembering to use a gun but not a condom
— Sh@nice Larry4Life (@babelv1991) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan repeatedly chanting USA USA because you've got nothing more interesting or intellectual to say.
— Jacqueline Woolley (@Jackie_Woolley) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan Celebrating the USA by losing your hearing to homemade Mexican fireworks @midnight pic.twitter.com/G0xXew2BSO
— Rick G. Rosner (@dumbassgenius) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan Captain America! pic.twitter.com/QWnrXEKsJ8
— English Cad (@englishcad) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan profiling shooters instead of reconsidering our archaic gun laws
— Victoria Dokken (@VictoriaDokken) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan getting a gun for your gun so your gun can have a gun to protect yourself from a criminal with a gun.
— Orian Thompson (@Blackman38Tide) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan frivolous lawsuits, religious hypocrisy, and destroying the environment because of lobbyist$.
— del james (@deljamesgang) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan the nicest people are covered in tattoos & the most judgmental people go to church on Sundays. @midnight
— Kyle Harris (@kylesaidthis) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan trick or treat pic.twitter.com/6CQ8SyDBRG
— Jenna Abrams (@Jenn_Abrams) July 3, 2015
A handful of Twitter users replied with more patriotic tweets:
#NothingMoreAmericanThan the Gipper. pic.twitter.com/m28icGWhVT
— The Foo (@PolitiBunny) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan complaining about politics and then not voting @midnight
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Holly Happily (@Hollyorange8) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan idiots using the freedom they take for granted to bash the nation that provided it
— Victor Nikki (@hapkidobigdad) July 3, 2015
#nothingmoreamericanthan Knowing & Honoring our History and passing it on to our youth! pic.twitter.com/Lf2TgM9sFn
— Mrs. Rutter ™ (@lindarutter) July 3, 2015
#NothingMoreAmericanThan an unapologetic love of this exceptional nation & all that it stands for.
????????????????????pic.twitter.com/VDhJUY8qvQ— American ✯ Woman (@FoundersGirl) July 3, 2015
