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Religious Nationalism is brainrot. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 months ago (2 children)

All nationalism is brain rot.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

At its best, nationalism in some forms can help unify people from disparate backgrounds into an imagined national identity. Unfortunately, most nationalism rots into division instead. Christian nationalism in the US, Hindu nationalism in India, Nazis in Germany. These all reject members of the physical nation in favor of their crazed fantasy version.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Anti-colonial nationalism is fine actually. Not ideal but it is basically "everyone here regardless of more local culture should unite in a combined struggle to overthrow the oppressors" as opposed to colonial nationalism.