What's so racist about Blackface?

Jun 2013

Glad she did that and hopefully she learned.

Now we can onto more important things like how Trump has now admitted he is a "nationalist".
Trump claiming to be a "nationalist" regardless of whether he tried to characterize it as something different than what history has shown to many times be the result of nationalism, he could be harming himself as much as he might be thinking he is helping himself. Some have been reported as suspecting Trump was speaking "code" to "nationalists" in America that represent the worst of nationalists and nationalism in world history. It doesn't have to be code regardless of how Trump tried to couch it. The sum of Trump's actions have at minimum hinted, if not given permission for and served to enable anyone so inclined, to act out the worst characteristics of the worst of nationalists, in history.

There is nationalism and there is extreme nationalism and the problems of the latter, should be obvious to students of history.
Many people love their nation and want themselves to be a higher priority in many ways, but they also recognize they do not live in a vacuum and the still must interact with other nations on the globe and just as any individual, must balance their own needs, against those of the whole, realizing that while it is about us, it is not ALL about us and that we can help ourselves, by helping others or working on mutual goals with those across the street or ocean, as much as we do with those, next door.

If this is not a red flag in combination with others, that need to be addressed and nipped in the bud, in the coming election, what would be?

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"I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult."
Albert Einstein, My Credo (1932)

"Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. "Patriotism" is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by "patriotism” I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one’s own nation, which is the concern with the nation’s spiritual as much as with its material welfare—never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship."
Erich Fromm, in The Sane Society (1955)

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism (1945)

"As conscious beings advance in mental growth, they come to recognise that this ideal must embrace not merely their own kin or neighbours, not only their tribe or nation, not only the whole race or species, but all conscious beings whatever, no matter how foreign."
Olaf Stapledon, Philosophy and living
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