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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As soon as I was old enough to understand what “pledge allegiance” meant, I refused to participate. It’s antithetical to everything America was supposed to be about. Allegiance is something a subject owes to a sovereign. If you live somewhere that still has ties to monarchy like Canada or the UK, then it would make some amount of sense. In the US, however, it’s literally nothing more than authoritarian indoctrination.

Needless to say, that got me in trouble a lot, especially in new schools or with new teachers.

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

I pledged my allegiance to a country with justice, and you damn well believe I will keep screaming for it in the streets and supporting those who do the same

That was a typo. It was supposed to be "with liberty and all for just us."

Liberty for them to do to others what they want.

Their vindictive and selfish “justice”.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It was always about obedience.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

I also deem the pledge of allegiance problematic, but playing devil's advocate for a second: Maybe those 'theys' are entirely disparate groups of people. Maybe the first 'they' made you recite those values, so that when the Nazi 'they' marched in, you knew where to draw the line and start fighting back.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

you know that meme where its the guy saying he prefers the original, and multiple options are thrown at him where he keeps saying "no the real original"

I feel like we have a case of that here, except its what Makes an American, and it continues getting reductive until you've narrowed it down to a Jingoistic or Ultranationalist/Manifest Destiny type WASP (White, Anglo-saxon heritage, Protestant faith christian)

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