Matthew Rothschild: Hate Mail on the Issue of Patriotism

[marmar]

from The Progressive:




Hate Mail on the Issue of Patriotism
By 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

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[undeterred]

2. He's a great guy, good writer.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Well, the comments proved Schopenhauer right.

"Patriotism is the most foolish of passions, and the passion of fools."

[asdjrocky]

4. My favorite all time hate response-

Got it right here on DU-

"you are an idiot you do not like the rich because they seceded they earned what they have. get the fuck out of this country you stupit dumb-ass you are the stupidest son of a bitch i have ever heard fuck you go get in line for your food stamps and welfare check you fucking bastard"

[Hydra]

5. Scary, isn't it?

I've seen the most shocking things ever here...stuff I'd never expect of a group of ahead of the curve people.

Somedays I wonder if the 1% really don't have it right about the quality of people they're oppressing.

[slackmaster]

6. I haven't been able to take Matthew Rothschild seriously since his hit piece on InfraGard backfired

The thing went viral and turned out to be pure BS. He never admitted that he'd been duped by a hoaxer.

[Spider Jerusalem]

7. This is not especially surprising. America is one of the most intensely nationalistic...

countries on earth. You can call it 'patriotism' all you want; it's still nationalism. George Orwell defined nationalism as the belief that your country, way of life, or ethnic group is superior to all others; most Americans believe the first two of those if not the third.