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When I disagree with a theoretical position I don't engage with it. I can acknowledge it exists. In a real world context I'm not interested in discussing the benefits of Nationalism with anyone. I am interested in cooperating with my local community and family to try and keep us all a bit safer and communicating our needs, I don't think there's a kind of Nationalism that's going to help with that.
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Well, we're agreed on that! My (respectful ) disagreement is that I think it would be helpful if there was more - discussion rather than air - given to other aspects of national identity. For me there are similarities with gender (bear with me) - it's a social construct and you could say we'd be better off without it. But whether the media are shit or there's no logic to identifying a certain way, it doesn't change the fact that it matters to people. It just does. We don't say - well misogyny is the worst, so let's not allow any discussion of gender. You can't just force people to "drop it". Maybe it would be better to create examples that aren't about backwards misplaced superiority.