(October 15, 2015 at 8:35 am)Dystopia Wrote:(October 15, 2015 at 8:32 am)abaris Wrote: Yes, patriotism and nationalism are such glorious things to strive for. They gave us all the beauties of the last century. What could possibly be wrong with that?
Because liberalism gave us awesome things as well. How about a middle ground, like civic nationalism that is based on equality, contribution and mutual tolerance and not on race (and other trivial things) while still glorifying country people live in towards a common goal? Everyone is a bit nationalist to some degree, it's not avoidable, Not all nationalism equals being a racist nazi or a totalitarian
Not all nationalism is bad, but over the last few years the trend has been for more and more hard line phrases and propaganda to appear so that now what would have been seen as extreme are now accepted without comment, enough that I have seen some of my friends, nice people who I enjoy the company of, posting hateful anti-immigrant posts without batting an eye. They wouldn't have dreamed of posting these things a few years ago and the increase in nationalism is to blame. I can see no way that in the current climate the UK will stay in the EU after the referendum next year and I fear the consequences.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.