(highlight:: A Nazi's Perspective on Using Patriotism as a Lever to Promote Militarism
Summary:
Tribalism allows for the manipulation of militarism and patriotism.
Through the tactic of creating a sense of being under attack and blaming pacifists for lack of patriotism and endangering the nation, people can easily be rallied to defend their country.
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The Nazi Hermann Göring understood how tribalism makes it easy to mix and manipulate militarism and patriotism. At the Nuremberg trials, Göring explained, all you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for the lack of patriotism and exposing the country To danger. People rally to defend their country then.)
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(highlight:: Universal Patriotism: My country is the world
Summary:
Patriotism can embrace all humanity, promoting global compassion and universal values.
This form of patriotism, as seen by William Galston, does not conflict with universal principles of right or attachment to particular communities. It is akin to cosmopolitanism, free from local, provincial, or national bias, exemplified by Thomas Paine's sentiment: My country is the world.
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Not all forms of patriotism, however, need to become so powerfully polarizing. Jean -Jacques Rousseau went so far as to say that his patriotism embraced all humanity. It promoted global compassion and universal values. William Galston of the Brookings Institution embraces this kind of patriotism. He sees no contradiction between universal principles of right and patriotic attachment to particular communities. Says that this kind of reasonable patriotism shares some qualities of cosmopolitanism, an attitude free from local, provincial or national biocer attachment. It's the kind of attachment that led Thomas Paine to say, My country is the world.)
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(highlight:: James Baldwin on Criticality as a Form of Patriotism
Summary:
Patriotism can extend to protesting against one's nation, as James Baldwin argued.
He emphasized the love for America but also the necessity of perpetual criticism as a form of genuine patriotism.
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And patriotism can also involve protesting against the behavior of one's nation. James Baldwin, in Notes of a Native Son, defended this kind of patriotism. He wrote, I love America more than any other country in the world, and for this reason I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.)
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(highlight:: True Patriotism Isn't Cheap, It Involves Continually Challenging the Status Quo
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True patriotism is not about displaying a narrow and selfish kind of patriotism but about shouldering the burdens to keep America going.
It involves not cutting programs for the poor to benefit the affluent few. Ethical patriotism goes beyond 'America first' and true patriots are open to humanity, disturb the comfortable, comfort the disturbed, and uphold justice over false national pride.
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Robert Wright wrote that true patriotism isn't cheap, it's about taking on a fair share of the burdens of keeping America going. We can't display a cheap patriotism of that narrow and selfish kind. Wright concludes one column saying those who want to cut programs for the benefit of the poor, food stamps, child nutrition, pell -grams, Medicaid, so that they can get a tax cut for Themselves and their affluent friends are not true patriots. And ethical patriotism cannot be about America first. I agree with Reich when he says that in America true patriots are deeply curious and open to the rest of humanity. Reverend Jesse Jackson knew that patriotism can be strenuous and can make some people uncomfortable. He said true patriots invariably disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed, and are persecuted in their lifetimes even as their accomplishments are applauded after their Deaths. We must never relinquish our sense of justice for a false sense of national pride.)
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