[ SECRET POST #2352 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2352 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Different anon and not trying to speak for the one you're replying to, but I think a lot of people these days take "patriotism" to mean radical nationalism or, in the case of the United States, blind American exceptionalism. (To be fair, in some of the more egregious examples we see nowadays, that's exactly what it is.)

Loving one's country is fine. It's good to like the place where you live. But refusing to acknowledge that one's country is just as imperfect and in need of improvement as any other, and more so than some; insisting that it's "the best!" when it demonstrably and quantifiably is not; and asserting that its government and/or military is justified in all of its policies and actions by virtue of simply being itself or by divine fiat, is foolish, arrogant and exceptionally dangerous.

[tyger66]

I wrote a paragraph of my feeeeelings below, but I agree almost completely with what you said. People confuse patriotism with nationalism, to the point where I have friends that do not know the difference between the two.

And they assume that any American who's patriotic is one of those nationalist "'Murrica!" stereotypes that are actually pretty rare, even in the deep, deep south.

/blah blah stereotypes blah blah dictionary nerd