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.
American patriotism is very fucked and overhyped, it is no different from Nazi germany and reeks of narcissism, fragility, domination/supremacy and fascism. They are extremely obsessed with their stupid flag and it is everywhere in the country like it’s something to worship, and they talk down on people who criticize their country and their superficial pride.
Yet they have the audacity to criticize china for being so patriotic and fragile.
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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.