All of that is true, especially for white middle-class Americans. But, and I think this is what the previous poster is getting at, he further you get from the imperial core the greater the chance of an alternate experience.
I've been subscribed to Private Eye for about 22 years now. I don't think it has changed all that much in that time. It's not as apolitical as it would claim I think because it suffers from a little bit of Capitalist Realism. It doesn't pull its punches regardless of who it sets its sights on however I feel it fails to tie together overarching themes.
I get your point but this type of action has always been part and parcel of settler colonialism. They cynically write their own history/propaganda. The same shits that deny these things haven't happened over and over again are terrified of immigrants because of their own internalised behaviours.
These match books have card matches so they are difficult to strike like a wooden match. The card match is drawn through between the cover of the matchbook and the striking surface. So the ad on the front of the packet is a word play on the igniting mechanism. Larson's joke here seems to be that Michaelangelo Da Vinci , one of history's most famous artists, was inspired to become an artist by one of these everyday matchbook puns.
All of that is true, especially for white middle-class Americans. But, and I think this is what the previous poster is getting at, he further you get from the imperial core the greater the chance of an alternate experience.