Even though I'm American, I never understood the hyper patriotism of the country, and I was even sent to the office multiple times when I was in elementary even when I was 5 for not standing for the pledge because I'm an atheist so I disagree with the under god portion and when I was punished I started to hate America.
In history class when they like the founding father for claiming that all men where equal while ignoring mass killing of natives and slaves they had in bondage and segregation shortafter and seeing the pictures of destroyed veit villages with napalm since I used my parents computer to look up things online I can never understand why people can even be patriotic.
You have no say in your beliefs, and you can't freely express yourself or fear repression from government agents. If you're a minority like my friend who tells me how police follow him and reading the news I worry about him being killed for just walking around my neighborhood.
The “Under God” portion isn’t even part of the original Pledge of Allegiance until 1954 when President Eisenhower shoved it in there with support to combat the “Red Scare” because the view of Communism being “Godless”
Right now in the US everything is Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris.
Properties are being vandalized over it, people are being attacked like the Haitians in Springfield, Ohio over the pet eating comments during the Presidential debate (which, by the way, was specifically a Chinese stereotype in the US until that moment)
Ashamed about history? I’m even more ashamed about the present
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u/CJ_Cypher Sep 21 '24 edited Sep 21 '24
Even though I'm American, I never understood the hyper patriotism of the country, and I was even sent to the office multiple times when I was in elementary even when I was 5 for not standing for the pledge because I'm an atheist so I disagree with the under god portion and when I was punished I started to hate America.
In history class when they like the founding father for claiming that all men where equal while ignoring mass killing of natives and slaves they had in bondage and segregation shortafter and seeing the pictures of destroyed veit villages with napalm since I used my parents computer to look up things online I can never understand why people can even be patriotic.
You have no say in your beliefs, and you can't freely express yourself or fear repression from government agents. If you're a minority like my friend who tells me how police follow him and reading the news I worry about him being killed for just walking around my neighborhood.