This post was republished with permission fromZero Hedge
In ameandering essayname dropping every dress-to-impress academic figure from Voltaire to Alexis de Tocqueville to Howard Zinn, The New Yorker has set out on a quest to explain how the progressive left can essentially despise the country they live in the name of social justice, while also adopting the perks of “patriotism” so they can own the Chuds.
The publication throws around some curious stats and asserts that patriotism is on the decline because, as they argue, patriotism today requires people to be blind to the injustices of the past. They note:
“…We seem to be in a down moment. A Gallup poll found that, in the past dozen years, the percentage of people in the U.S. who say that they’re “extremely proud to be American” has plunged by sixteen points. A recent Harris poll noted that roughly four in ten Americans have considered relocating outside the country, with younger Americans even more inclined…”
“Last May, Newsweek published an article with the melancholy headline “Why Dual Citizenship Is the New American Dream.” Some commentators ascribe this to financial prudence, but the trend dates back at least to 2016 and the election of Donald Trump…”
Trump, the ever present and useful bogeyman, is obviously to blame. The New Yorker, of course, glosses over the fact that the majority of the people who feel “less patriotic” inthat Gallup pollare Democrats who are highly indoctrinated by establishment media to obsess over “historical injustices.” The outlet applauds the decline, in a way. It’s rooted in the same old DEI and 1619 Project talking points that the woke media has been peddling for over a decade.
“Patriotism just isn’t cool anymore. Wokeness, having rightly called attention to racial and gender injustices long endemic to American life, helped chill the left’s admiration for the nation…”
“Ours is a complicated history, made more tortuous by race. Some five hundred Indigenous nations lived here before the first enslaved Africans arrived, in 1619 – a year before the first Pilgrims. That, too, is American history, along with Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the Great Migration, Black anger, Black humor, and Black culture. This isn’t wokeness; it’s fact.
Trump’s America has the virtue of simplicity: no initial divisions; no loyalists and patriots, or Native peoples and settlers, or Federalists and Anti-Federalists. He’s not bothered by labor unrest, unfair imprisonment, white-nationalist undercurrents…”
Yes, it is wokeness, and The New Yorker cites some “facts” but as usual they don’t tell the whole truth. It’s an approximation of history (using cherry-picked facts) based on the political left’s own convenient narratives. For example, they make no mention of the fact that some of the very first slave owners in US history were black. Nor do they mention that there were at least 3775 black slave owners in the American South in 1830 and up to 6000 black slave owners by the time the Civil War kicked off.
Source: modernity
