I really do not believe it’s any kind of psyop, or anything major like a lot of ppl are in here making it seem. We are so used to seeing hate for a country be backed by feds movements and capitalist propaganda that we forget how easily people get whipped up onto a frenzy over something much simpler and far less sinister.

I am almost all but certain the real reason behind the uprise in Argentina hate is right now is because… Fucking sportsball. It’s been all over the news, reddit, etc for the past week or two. The Argentina football team has had several instances of being absolute shit heels. It’s apparently a pretty consistent thing but this year it’s gained a ton of attention and the media really went hard into it. And so many people are so ingrained into their tribalism that when they see one small group from a certain country, they equate everyone in that country to that behavior. That’s what’s happened. That’s why it’s such a big deal right now. They are constantly being bombarded with clips of this team being absolute asshole and getting away with it. Then the media leans into it because it gets clicks. They take any instance of an Argentina fan being shitty and post it everywhere and before long, people start just start assuming all Argentina is like this.

This is why I don’t think it’s anything sinister. This is just how people operate. It’s always been this way. “A few people that are different then me did a bad thing and so I now assume all those people from that place are bad.”