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Yet I still love it more than not. That seems to make me an "other" to so many of these people.
I love the ideals that this nation was founded upon, but I hate that we've never lived up to those ideals.
I love that we've moved over time to make this a more perfect union—to move ever closer to those ideals; but I hate how slow this movement has been, and how long it has taken.
I would fight and die for this country if I needed to defend it, but I also want to spend most of my life fighting this nation to make it better.
Strong criticism of something doesn't mean that it's hated—it might mean that it's loved, but very very imperfect. The best way to celebrate the 4th of July—to me—is to reflect on the many ways that this union could be more perfect, and to work on moving us in that direction.
Proclaiming Americanism failed to live up to its ideals isn't hatred. It's a simple factual statement that's painfully obvious.
Harsh criticism is necessary to reform. You can't move towards that more perfect union if we don't open our eyes to the problems of the systems.
If you reject all criticism out of hand as unpatriotic, then you cut off your ability to make progress.
I don't reject criticism as unpatriotic. I was made aware of no-knock warrants from Ms Taylor's unfortunate death, and I am against them. I am in favor of most police reform.
I am not in favor of the riots, CHOP, knocking down statues, or continued protests drawing thousands of individuals during a time of pandemic.
And people are supporting this. We should condemn all forms of violence from both sides - white supremists and the people who counter them with more violence.
It’s unbelievable how we allow this on our social media platforms and yet we have a policy for inciting violence.
There is a race war going on and it’s terrifying. Forget social justice, we are gonna have massacres.
It's a joke on a written on a piece of cardboard. I guarantee you the vast majority of people there never thought that they had left the territory or jurisdiction of the United States.
It never was a secessionist movement. That you think that is probably because you never listened to what the people who were there had to say.
That's what I mean when you say you rejected the criticism out of hand. You didn't even listen to the criticism! You heard a completely distorted summary that was pushed by people with polar opposite goals of the protesters. You didn't take the time to listen to the criticisms that were leveled, or their demands, before deciding that they were a secessionist movement.
If you're so confident in their demands, why don't you post them? Here's where I got mine from: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/seattle-capitol-hill-autonomo... . If you don't actually think this is what they want you need to (1) establish why the article I linked is incorrect and (2) establish why whatever list of demands you produced is the 'official' one. According to wikipedia, the demands in the daily dot article were posted on Medium by organizers of the protest.
Here is the authoritative list: https://medium.com/@seattleblmanon3/the-demands-of-the-colle...
Anyone who thinks this is 'reform' and not a radical undoing of everything the US stands for is not seeing what I'm seeing.
If you look below the surface the sentiments of many of them seem to be similar to this excerpt from Frederick Douglass:
"Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men, too, great enough to give frame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admiration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory."
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html
He then goes on to say what's wrong with the fourth. I won't spoil it. It's worth reading and re-reading.
Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/04/24/sizing-up-tw...