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Which part of that newsroom segment is self-loathing? Having an accurate assessment of your country's flaws is necessary to improvement. The notion that if you don't blindly believe your country is perfect then you must be self-loathing is dumb.
My problem with the clip is it sets up a delusional scenario to make the guy make a point the completely under other direction. No college campus has panels being asked "why are we so great" with their experts on stage just smiling.
So to start off the scene, we already have that exaggerated setting. This allows him to set up demonizing the current generation as "the worst period generation ever period" because of a problem this generation currently doesn't have. Then he lists a bunch of broad things we did in the past and ends with "America is not the greatest country in the world anymore". His entire damn point of there being no evidence of showing how we are the greatest country in the world right now ends with him saying we use to be.
My point is he is the grumpy old man with myopic self-aggrandizement about the "glory days" and is spewing statistics that a 20 year old college student wouldn't even have a chance to solve before entering their profession.
This scene is on level with the atheist professor/christian student chalk story that gets floated around. Just as mindless and propped up to make a really shitty point.