#nationalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nationalism, aggregated by home.social.
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Zack Polanski continuing to tell truths that Zionists don't want told.
Why should one nation be above the laws and rules of all the others?
When you start making exceptions, terrible things happen...#ZackPolanski #Nationalism #Colonialism #Zionism #UKPol #UKpolitics #Fascism #InternationalLaw #Genocide
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Zack Polanski continuing to tell truths that Zionists don't want told.
Why should one nation be above the laws and rules of all the others?
When you start making exceptions, terrible things happen...#ZackPolanski #Nationalism #Colonialism #Zionism #UKPol #UKpolitics #Fascism #InternationalLaw #Genocide
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Zack Polanski continuing to tell truths that Zionists don't want told.
Why should one nation be above the laws and rules of all the others?
When you start making exceptions, terrible things happen...#ZackPolanski #Nationalism #Colonialism #Zionism #UKPol #UKpolitics #Fascism #InternationalLaw #Genocide
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Zack Polanski continuing to tell truths that Zionists don't want told.
Why should one nation be above the laws and rules of all the others?
When you start making exceptions, terrible things happen...#ZackPolanski #Nationalism #Colonialism #Zionism #UKPol #UKpolitics #Fascism #InternationalLaw #Genocide
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Zack Polanski continuing to tell truths that Zionists don't want told.
Why should one nation be above the laws and rules of all the others?
When you start making exceptions, terrible things happen...#ZackPolanski #Nationalism #Colonialism #Zionism #UKPol #UKpolitics #Fascism #InternationalLaw #Genocide
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The #Liberals & their #PHON & #Nationals mates are blaming 'non-citizens' for nearly everything. We non-canines can hear the dog-whistling. We know what toxic #nationalism looks and smells like. With about 50 yrs of #Oil left, #electrification is essential. #AngusTaylor joins the #populist road to oblivion. They are simply scientifically and economical ignorant #Budget2026 #NetZero
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The #Liberals & their #PHON & #Nationals mates are blaming 'non-citizens' for nearly everything. We non-canines can hear the dog-whistling. We know what toxic #nationalism looks and smells like. With about 50 yrs of #Oil left, #electrification is essential. #AngusTaylor joins the #populist road to oblivion. They are simply scientifically and economical ignorant #Budget2026 #NetZero
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The #Liberals & their #PHON & #Nationals mates are blaming 'non-citizens' for nearly everything. We non-canines can hear the dog-whistling. We know what toxic #nationalism looks and smells like. With about 50 yrs of #Oil left, #electrification is essential. #AngusTaylor joins the #populist road to oblivion. They are simply scientifically and economical ignorant #Budget2026 #NetZero
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The #Liberals & their #PHON & #Nationals mates are blaming 'non-citizens' for nearly everything. We non-canines can hear the dog-whistling. We know what toxic #nationalism looks and smells like. With about 50 yrs of #Oil left, #electrification is essential. #AngusTaylor joins the #populist road to oblivion. They are simply scientifically and economical ignorant #Budget2026 #NetZero
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The #Liberals & their #PHON & #Nationals mates are blaming 'non-citizens' for nearly everything. We non-canines can hear the dog-whistling. We know what toxic #nationalism looks and smells like. With about 50 yrs of #Oil left, #electrification is essential. #AngusTaylor joins the #populist road to oblivion. They are simply scientifically and economical ignorant #Budget2026 #NetZero
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Q. Should we discourage children from playing war games?
A. We might wish to discourage them, but it would be utterly useless at the present time, so we might as well give in gracefully and try to see that when war games are played they teach the lessons which we wish our children to learn — fair play, magnanimity in victory, courage in defeat and no hatred of peoples.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1942-08), “If You Ask Me,” Ladies’ Home Journal, Vol. 59More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/83…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #children #conflict #courage #fairplay #games #hatred #lessons #magnanimity #model #moralityplay #nationalism #pedagogy #play #prejudice #teachingmoment #wargames #WorldWar2 #ww2 #parenting
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WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Except workers behind BAD Imaginary Line; you're a bunch of LABOR ARISTOCRATS
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I think one must engage in politics — using the word in a wide sense — and that one must have preferences: that is, one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. As for the nationalistic loves and hatreds that I have spoken of, they are part of the make-up of most of us, whether we like it or not. Whether it is possible to get rid of them I do not know, but I do believe that it is possible to struggle against them, and that this is essentially a moral effort. It is a question first of all of discovering what one really is, what one’s own feelings really are, and then of making allowance for the inevitable bias.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46470/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bias #cause #endsandmeans #ideology #jingoism #moralcharacter #moralduty #nationalism #objectivity #politicalopinion #politics #prejudice #selfawareness #selfexamination #selfimprovement #subjectivity
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I think one must engage in politics — using the word in a wide sense — and that one must have preferences: that is, one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. As for the nationalistic loves and hatreds that I have spoken of, they are part of the make-up of most of us, whether we like it or not. Whether it is possible to get rid of them I do not know, but I do believe that it is possible to struggle against them, and that this is essentially a moral effort. It is a question first of all of discovering what one really is, what one’s own feelings really are, and then of making allowance for the inevitable bias.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46470/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bias #cause #endsandmeans #ideology #jingoism #moralcharacter #moralduty #nationalism #objectivity #politicalopinion #politics #prejudice #selfawareness #selfexamination #selfimprovement #subjectivity
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I think one must engage in politics — using the word in a wide sense — and that one must have preferences: that is, one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. As for the nationalistic loves and hatreds that I have spoken of, they are part of the make-up of most of us, whether we like it or not. Whether it is possible to get rid of them I do not know, but I do believe that it is possible to struggle against them, and that this is essentially a moral effort. It is a question first of all of discovering what one really is, what one’s own feelings really are, and then of making allowance for the inevitable bias.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46470/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bias #cause #endsandmeans #ideology #jingoism #moralcharacter #moralduty #nationalism #objectivity #politicalopinion #politics #prejudice #selfawareness #selfexamination #selfimprovement #subjectivity
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I think one must engage in politics — using the word in a wide sense — and that one must have preferences: that is, one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. As for the nationalistic loves and hatreds that I have spoken of, they are part of the make-up of most of us, whether we like it or not. Whether it is possible to get rid of them I do not know, but I do believe that it is possible to struggle against them, and that this is essentially a moral effort. It is a question first of all of discovering what one really is, what one’s own feelings really are, and then of making allowance for the inevitable bias.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46470/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bias #cause #endsandmeans #ideology #jingoism #moralcharacter #moralduty #nationalism #objectivity #politicalopinion #politics #prejudice #selfawareness #selfexamination #selfimprovement #subjectivity
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I think one must engage in politics — using the word in a wide sense — and that one must have preferences: that is, one must recognise that some causes are objectively better than others, even if they are advanced by equally bad means. As for the nationalistic loves and hatreds that I have spoken of, they are part of the make-up of most of us, whether we like it or not. Whether it is possible to get rid of them I do not know, but I do believe that it is possible to struggle against them, and that this is essentially a moral effort. It is a question first of all of discovering what one really is, what one’s own feelings really are, and then of making allowance for the inevitable bias.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46470/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bias #cause #endsandmeans #ideology #jingoism #moralcharacter #moralduty #nationalism #objectivity #politicalopinion #politics #prejudice #selfawareness #selfexamination #selfimprovement #subjectivity
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China had a rough century
https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/2043963/china-had-a-rough-century
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China had a rough century
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2043960/china-had-a-rough-century
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The performance of Irishness for outside approval is finished. Kneecap, Sally Rooney and the comedian Vittorio Angelone ask a question the State has avoided for years: what is all of this for, if not for us?
#Irishness #patriotism #irish #Kneecap #SallyRooney #nationalism #colony #USimperialism #IrishAmerican #mastodaonie #Ireland #IrishPol #AmericanIrish #PraGringoVer #IrishRepublican #BlindedByFlag #CulturalColonialism #IrelandIsFull #CulturalImperialism
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/214636/ Pro-Russian activist Kémi Séba wanted in Benin goes to court in South Africa #activism #Africa #Benin #Courts #extradition #FranceGovernment #FranoisVanDerMerwe #GeneralNews #Immigration #Indictments #InternationalNews #MilitaryAndDefense #Misinformation #nationalism #niger #PatriceTalon #politics #RebellionsAndUprisings #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricaGovernment #VladimirPutin #WorldNews #YevgenyPrigozhin
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Two views of the Hundred Years' War
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2025861/two-views-of-the-hundred-years-war
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Two views of the Hundred Years' War
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2025861/two-views-of-the-hundred-years-war
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Two views of the Hundred Years' War
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2025861/two-views-of-the-hundred-years-war
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Two views of the Hundred Years' War
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2025861/two-views-of-the-hundred-years-war
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Two views of the Hundred Years' War
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2025861/two-views-of-the-hundred-years-war
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I disagree with punishing people for their nationality. It's not so easy/possible to leave one's family and establish a life in a place where people often don't want you there.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/24/venice-biennale-jury-not-award-artists-countries-face-war-crimes-israel-russia
#nationalism #punishment #war #crime #immigration #emigration #art #artist -
I disagree with punishing people for their nationality. It's not so easy/possible to leave one's family and establish a life in a place where people often don't want you there.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/24/venice-biennale-jury-not-award-artists-countries-face-war-crimes-israel-russia
#nationalism #punishment #war #crime #immigration #emigration #art #artist -
I disagree with punishing people for their nationality. It's not so easy/possible to leave one's family and establish a life in a place where people often don't want you there.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/24/venice-biennale-jury-not-award-artists-countries-face-war-crimes-israel-russia
#nationalism #punishment #war #crime #immigration #emigration #art #artist -
I disagree with punishing people for their nationality. It's not so easy/possible to leave one's family and establish a life in a place where people often don't want you there.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/24/venice-biennale-jury-not-award-artists-countries-face-war-crimes-israel-russia
#nationalism #punishment #war #crime #immigration #emigration #art #artist -
I disagree with punishing people for their nationality. It's not so easy/possible to leave one's family and establish a life in a place where people often don't want you there.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/24/venice-biennale-jury-not-award-artists-countries-face-war-crimes-israel-russia
#nationalism #punishment #war #crime #immigration #emigration #art #artist -
I deplore the defunding of US science, and often post about it here. But I try to deplore it without nationalism. That is, I care more about the harm to science than the harm to America-firstness. However, those who are defunding US science are nationalists, and this news is karma for them.
"China surpasses US in research spending – the consequences extend far beyond scientific ranking and clout."
https://theconversation.com/china-surpasses-us-in-research-spending-the-consequences-extend-far-beyond-scientific-ranking-and-clout-280543?shem=dsdf,sharefoc,agadiscoversdl,,sh/x/discover/m1/4"China’s…investment in research and development has reached parity with – and by purchasing power measures has surpassed – that of the United States, according to a March 2026 report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development."
FYI, here are some news stories I tagged with "oa.nationalism" for the Open Access Tracking Project.
https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.nationalism#China #DefendResearch #Funding #Nationalism #OECD #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics
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An interview with Molly Crabapple. Her most recent book is "Here Where We Live is Our Country: The Story of the Jewish Bund". She notably explains "hereness" and evokes the history of the Bund (or General Jewish Labour Bund, Yiddish: דער בונד), a socialist party founded in the Russian Empire (primarily Lithuania, Poland, and Russia).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-jewish-bund-and-political-imagination-329396909/ via @joachim
#doykayt #socialism #podcast #nationalism #Zionism #refugees #ww2 #Europe #Poland #history #resettlement #settlers #Bund #JewishGenocide #book #bookStodon #Russia #RussianEmpire #Lithuania
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In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46211/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #acceptance #alternatefacts #cognitivedissonance #delusion #facingfacts #factcheck #facts #nationalism #reality #selectivememory #truth
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In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46211/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #acceptance #alternatefacts #cognitivedissonance #delusion #facingfacts #factcheck #facts #nationalism #reality #selectivememory #truth
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In nationalist thought there are facts which are both true and untrue, known and unknown. A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46211/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #acceptance #alternatefacts #cognitivedissonance #delusion #facingfacts #factcheck #facts #nationalism #reality #selectivememory #truth
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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A quotation from Henry Commager
What is the new loyalty? It is, above all, conformity. It is the uncritical and unquestioning acceptance of America as it is — the political institutions, the social relationships, the economic practices. It rejects inquiry into the race question or socialized medicine, or public housing, or into the wisdom or validity of our foreign policy. It regards as particularly heinous any challenge to what is called “the system of private enterprise,” identifying that system with Americanism. It abandons evolution, repudiates the once popular concept of progress, and regards America as a finished product, perfect and complete.
Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Essay (1947-09), "Who Is Loyal to America?" Harper's Magazine, Vol. 195, No. 1168More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #America #bigbusiness #capitalism #conformity #conservatism #exceptionalism #freeenterprise #laissezfaire #loyalty #nationalism #perfection #progress #publichousing #racism #socializedmedicine #statusquo
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History is thought of largely in nationalist terms, and such things as the Inquisition, the tortures of the Star Chamber, the exploits of the English buccaneers (Sir Francis Drake, for instance, who was given to sinking Spanish prisoners alive), the Reign of Terror, the heroes of the Mutiny blowing hundreds of Indians from the guns, or Cromwell’s soldiers slashing Irishwomen’s faces with razors, become morally neutral or even meritorious when it is felt that they were done in the “right” cause. If one looks back over the past quarter of a century, one finds that there was hardly a single year when atrocity stories were not being reported from some part of the world; and yet in not one single case were these atrocities — in Spain, Russia, China, Hungary, Mexico, Amritsar, Smyrna — believed in and disapproved of by the English intelligentsia as a whole. Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945-05), “Notes on Nationalism,” Polemic Magazine (1945-10)More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/46140/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #atrocity #cause #condemnation #endsandmeans #history #justification #nationalism #ourside #partisanship #politics #takingsides #tribalism #truthiness #usvsthem #warcrime
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Is #Trump REALLY claiming that #Jesus image was intended to show him as a "doctor"? Who is he trying to kid? He's upset #Catholics, by verbally attacking Pope Leo XIV, & his #blasphemy & #idolatry risk his support from all genuine #Christians. Did he ever have ANY support from genuine Christians, as HE isn't #Christian, #MAGA #Republicanism isn't, & "white Christian #nationalism" isn't?
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Is #Trump REALLY claiming that #Jesus image was intended to show him as a "doctor"? Who is he trying to kid? He's upset #Catholics, by verbally attacking Pope Leo XIV, & his #blasphemy & #idolatry risk his support from all genuine #Christians. Did he ever have ANY support from genuine Christians, as HE isn't #Christian, #MAGA #Republicanism isn't, & "white Christian #nationalism" isn't?
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Is #Trump REALLY claiming that #Jesus image was intended to show him as a "doctor"? Who is he trying to kid? He's upset #Catholics, by verbally attacking Pope Leo XIV, & his #blasphemy & #idolatry risk his support from all genuine #Christians. Did he ever have ANY support from genuine Christians, as HE isn't #Christian, #MAGA #Republicanism isn't, & "white Christian #nationalism" isn't?
