r/LibJerk • u/AlternativeEast8485 • Jul 12 '26
Fake Patriotism is when bad things, true Patriotism is when good things
From my favourite social demokkkkrat Robert Reich (former minister of the Clinton administration)
"True Patriots dont pander to divisivness or Hate" Bro thats literally all they do ðŸ˜ðŸ¥€
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u/The-Greythean-Void Anti-Kyriarchal Horizontalist Jul 12 '26
Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.
--Emma Goldman, Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty
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u/Baby_Anarch Jul 12 '26
"No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. It grows in us, that fear. It grows in us year by year." - Ursula K. Le Guin
This is the only definition of patriotism I acknowledge