from The Progressive:
Hate Mail on the Issue of PatriotismBy Matthew Rothschild, July 17, 2010
Two weeks ago, when I posted a blog entitled “Why I Don’t Celebrate July 4,” I figured I’d get some heated responses.
But they were uglier than I expected. (You could read them all
here.)
Many told me to leave. Said one: “Get out of my country, you fucking cunt!”
Another said: “We will take back our country and you will be invited to leave.”
“Fuck you, faggot,” said yet another.
One called me a “Jewboy,” and a couple referred to my last name as a well-known Jewish name and hinted darkly at conspiracy.
Then there were those who threatened me with bodily harm.
“I'd love to set off an M-80 up your liberal ass,” said one.
“Maybe we need to take the flags and use the ones with those sharp points to eliminate you and your family from existence,” said another.
A third said: “If there's a God in heaven, you'll be impaled and detonated this very day by a celebratory pyrotechnic display gone horribly, wonderfully off course.”
Seeing that this didn’t happen on July 4 is, I suppose, another argument in the atheist column.
Rest assured, I won’t be deterred or intimidated by this ugliness.
But it does serve to confirm the depths of intolerant and anti-democratic sentiment that patriotism can plumb.
http://www.progressive.org/wx071710.html