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Newcastle

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Fri Oct-17-03 01:43 PM
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34. I think we should abandon all these fuzzy words

altogether. We'll never agree on the definition of patriotism, and words like this one, which carry so much emotional baggage, tend to create more problems than they solve. I tend to agree with you that the most patriotic among us are the most activist, the most dissenting, the most loyal to Constitutional values and liberties (I think that's what you were getting at, if I read you correctly), but the fact remains that patriotism is most often used to attack others, to stifle dissent, to parade jingoism and crass nationalism. It's best to keep words like patriotism out of our debates altogether.

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