After reading Kino's diary on Lisa Schiffrin's latest comments on "Patriotism for Kids," I couldn't resist the temptation to drop Schiffrin an email. After all, I'm getting pretty tired of right-wing efforts to control what counts as patriotism in America, especially when the "My Country, Right or Wrong" attitude they promote has been so damaging to our interests at home and abroad these last eight years. I should have been grading my students' essays this afternoon, but instead I took a foray into the latest skirmish in the ongoing culture war. Follow me, if you will, below the fold.
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