The thing with patriotism (or, if we're honest, nationalism) is you can't just adopt it on rhetorical level or use it to teach edifying myths. To be meaningful it has to be attached to a national project, which can be malign (xenophobia) or benign (say, defeating fascism).
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I'm probably more amenable to nationalism than most people (in the mode of Benedict Anderson, I think you can't have a functioning modern society without some nationalism. But that nationalism has to have content.
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What I find amusing is that this guy was ahead of the curve and now all the smart guy pundits are pitching their own version of this (with Marxist-Leninism replaced by "progressivism"). Good luck!pic.twitter.com/AAVd7mKX1G
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You don't think declarations that "our strength is diversity" or that "we're a nation of immigrants" qualify as appeals to patriotism?
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Yes they do and they have some appeal. They can be built on.
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I mean, what's wrong with a multi-cultural social democracy as an aspirational project?
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Isn’t the content of American nationalism the whole “melting pot” shtick? It’s the reverse of xenophobia. Come to America, change your name to something Anglo, and you too can live the dream of having a white picket fence and 2.5 kids who all go to college (and a dog).
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