I think I feel a similar way. There’s issues and causes that I wholeheartedly believe in, but find myself pushing back against when I’m coerced to pledge a certain allegiance or wear a specific ‘scause. I dunno if I’m just being oppositionally defiant as some instinctive reaction or what.

In a way, the actual exercise of rebellion gives the issue meaning. If you’re forced to issue a statement of some sort, it just becomes a meaningless ritual, does it not?