I'm still blown away by how intensely partisan were the events surrounding this year's Fourth of July. I wrote about this earlier in my entry, "Protesters Disrupt Independence Day Ceremony for New Citizens."
But the debate continued yesterday, for example, at Winds of Change, which took issue with Matthew Yglesias' post-patriotic relativism (he argued for, essentially, the internationalization of national pride, strangely enough).
Less abstract were the comments in the thread from this news story on Code Pink's anti-Bush Fourth of July protests:
Those of you on the “so-called” right (otherwise known as “fascists” in other parts of the world) should open your eyes and take a look around you. You don’t seem to realize that we (used to) live in a country where free speech was valued. Those Americans who expressed themselves have a right to be angry with Bush and his administration. He has lied to us and the world, and his lies have cost hundreds of thousands of people their lives (or maybe you live on a different planet than the rest of us?)! Maybe you should stop watching so much Fox tv news and read a real book — may I suggest Wallerstein’s “European Universalism” for a start?!?!?
You are the people that embarrass this country — you make me want to vomit!
So, conservatives should go read a "real book"?
Sure, but Emmanuel Wallerstein? Let's just say our commenter's reading recommendations place him firmly in the postmodernist camp.
See also, Protein Wisdom, "Yglesias Breaks the Rule of Holes on Patriotism."
Image Credit: The People's Cube (notice the "patriotism node").
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