Fwd: Re: Patriotism

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Saul Alinsky once said you don't eat a ham sandwich in an Orthodoz
>>Jewish neighborhood (even if you're not Orthodox). Likewise, you
>>don't tell normal Americans--I don't mean me, I'm not normal, I'm an
>>eccentric leftist--that they are empty vicious murderous thugs
>>because they care about their country.
>
>Who exactly proposed to do this? Can you say "Your government does
>terrible things in your name with your money"? Or does that violate
>Alinsky's culinary guidelines?
>

Absolutely. I do it all the time. Hence the "Not in My Name" trope. I don't 
see the point, though, in implying that people who care about their country 
and feel attached to it and even (sometimes) proud of it are deluded 
jingoistic brutes, which seems to be a tendency hereabouts. I rather resent 
it because I'm one of them. Those people, that is, not (I hope) a deluded 
jingoistic brute.

jks

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