Quote Originally Posted by Papewaio
I think you can be anti an attribute of an object and not automatically anti the object IMDHO.
However that was not the statement made by the individual.

but it will take a hell of a convincer to convince me and to prove to me that in general the American nation is not aggressive, not hostile, and so on, both within (-- the society --) AND without (-- foreign politics). Basically, I think America has a bad civilization, and you can fill in the reasons -- the details -- yourself.
The statement was a generalization of all people and the nation itself. It wasn't directed at a single attribute or even several attributes of the object, it was directed at the object in general.

Its also based upon a generalization and one that he even contradicts himself in the previous sentence.