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True patriots respect fellow countrymen without bias against race, gender and/or sexual orientation.
True patriots respect women's rights to make decisions about their own bodies.
True patriots support education.
True patriots support reading, books, and libraries.
True patriots recognize people's right to choose their religion even if it means not having one.
True patriots know that it's patriotic to criticize your country.
True patriots do not marry child brides.
I watched this and Reich's video on distinguishing patriotism from nationalism, and honestly it still seems kind of like a contrived, arbitrary distinction. Ultimately it seems like the former is on a feeling of duty to serve a given country, while the latter is pride in it- but either way, the object of the affection is the country, the state. I could be wrong, but I can't immediately think of any given national entity that is actually worthy of that kind of unmitigated veneration- they're all a mix of good and bad, and for all of the socialized goods they provide they also monopolize power and control in oftentimes highly unjust ways.
Without watching the video, for me Patriotism was always supporting our country striving for improvements and finding pride in our accomplishments while correcting our errors.
Nationalism is just the our country is the best noone else is better and fuck anyone else. Also we never make mistakes and all we do is the beat.
A sort of extremist no thought approach to our country just because we were born here.
Patriotism requires thought nuance and a desire to build a better neighborhood so to speak.
Just my thoughts.
Republicans don't own patriotism.
They do own not being able to tell the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
The ones who tried to overthrow the government aren't the patriots? What a shock.
WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. TRAITORS ARE PATRIOTS.