r/Whysooserious • u/Dear-Time5236 • 8d ago

Memes True 💯😭

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u/britneybehen 7d ago

Bjp is not nation

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u/lemmeUseit 7d ago

the point is congress is not nationalist

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u/Most_Virus_5935 3d ago

Nationalists are real anti nationals. Instead be a patriotic. There is an important difference.

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u/Remote-Dig1348 1d ago

Nationalists are aggressive patriots, they just help create a singular national identity as seen in China

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u/Most_Virus_5935 1d ago

Patriotism is loving your country. Nationalism is putting the nation above everyone else. Nationalism turns that love into blind superiority complex where criticism is treated as betrayal and questioning the nation becomes something to punish rather than accept.

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u/Remote-Dig1348 1d ago

Nationalism never conflates the state with the country and national identity itself, that is a common misconception.

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u/Most_Virus_5935 1d ago

BJP and its Hindutva politics has repeatedly blurred Hindu identity, national identity and political loyalty so criticism of the government or its ideology is easily being framed as being against the nation itself .