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And of course, as with any 6 word slogan its naïve balderdash. British patriotism 1914- racist? Soviet patriotism 1941-1980 - racist? Syrian patriotism 2009-17 racist? Israeli patriotism 1947-2017 racist? Mexican patriotism 2017 - racist? Chinese patriotism over Taiwan - racist? For the idiots of the world, racism has become the idiotic catch-all phrase for anything they don't agree with.
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@angelasharrett: Yes, I have heard the aphorism cited by intelligent people and morons alike. What you're doing here has the appearance of someone deeply insecure misinterpreting the words and positions of others in order to frame an argument in fallacious terms that allow one to claim unearned intellectual or moral superiority. "Your" strongly implies specificity in the example above since it links the patriotism being criticized with particular unnamed subjects rather than rendering a blanket criticism of patriotism as a concept. In order for your argument to apply, the sign would have to either read "all patriotism is racism" or even simply "patriotism is racism". Your claim of there being no other "logical corollary" is unsupported and seems to be driven more by a need to erroneously cast people with whom you disagree as intellectually inferior rather than a sincere attempt at critical thought.