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The cheapest sort of pride is national pride. (lemmy.world)
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“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen.”
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[–] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

National pride is idiotic. Where you were born is just what happened. You had no say in or control over the matter. You are proud of something that happened that you had absolutely no hand in. Idiotic.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Could say the same thing about LGBT+ pride, that's also something that happened to you

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago

    The pride bit isn't about being queer full stop, it's about having the courage to be openly queer in a society that might try to kill you for it. It's about reversing the shame they attempt to force on us.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    It's a little bit different if you're getting attacked all the time (as what usually happens to LBGTQ+ people). I think pride in a nation or a group of people that you belong to is fine as long as you are fighting for something greater. For example the people of Ukraine coming together nationally to fight off a foreign invader

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