Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ on Nostr: Regarding right-wingers celebrating the loss of the World Cup team, protesting your ...
Regarding right-wingers celebrating the loss of the World Cup team, protesting your country's symbols, or refusing to participate in its symbolic rituals, when you believe it is perpetuating injustices *is* patriotism. Blind and unwavering devotion to the flag, the national anthem, and other representations of the American state isn't patriotism, it's subservience—and America's founding document was a rejection of subservience.
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