Ah yes, that worthless old argument. No, wait, two worthless arguments: one, that we cannot be grateful without being patriotic; two, that the alternative is N

Ah yes, that worthless old argument. No, wait, two worthless arguments: one, that we cannot be grateful without being patriotic; two, that the alternative is Nazis and Commies. Both are, of course, without a shred of evidence, common sense, or reason. They come from a place that recognises only binary divisions of humanity. Us, and them. Oh, and that false assumption that the people who salute flags get to make the moral judgements. Since I don’t have privileged white settler ancestry but come from a long line of the stateless and persecuted, my answer is that you can shove such false dichotomies up Satan’s privilege-assuming backside, because the only thing that experience reveals is that all patriotism is tyrannical.