Patriotism isn’t a good thing at all.
Nah, fuck that. Patriotism is just nationalism light.
Exactly. It’s the gateway drug to fascism.
Fuck it all.
I have to disagree. Without at least a little pride or the want to have pride in where we come from, what incentive is there to do things like cataloging history or preserving cultures and languages. I don’t think all cultures are objectively or subjectively good by any stretch, but their information, knowledge, and ritual is 100% worth cataloging and knowing, if anything just to preserve knowledge of what not to do.
For example, the confederate south. Is it worth keeping up monuments and statues honoring the traitors? Absolutely not. Is it worth keeping knowledge of what happened so that we might not repeat it? Absolutely. Without a healthy amount of patriotism, in this case the hope that where we come from can improve, why wouldn’t we just wipe away that history and pretend it didn’t happen? That’s a major line where it switches from patriotism to nationalism.
But mostly it’s just the want to improve where you’re from that’s why I believe you should have a healthy amount of patriotism. Without it, why bother doing anything at all, from protesting to
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You do not need to love your nation-state to want to preserve history or learn from the past.
That is such warped logic.
Both are stupid, especially if you live in the USA, where your government will let you be rendered homeless and dead in the street if you can’t pay enough money into the capitalist machine.
What’s to be proud of?
