this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2025
90 points (92.5% liked)
Progressive Politics
1521 readers
148 users here now
Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)
(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
There's no contradiction or double standard here.
Love and hate are usually understood to include support/oppose in their meaning. It's cringey to say you "love" any nation, because they will never care for your wellbeing. It's especially unacceptable to support violent imperial states.
That doesn't preclude opposing or hating certain states, or having indifference to states that you don't feel strongly impacted by.
That's not really her argument, which is that you cannot have any emotional relationship with a country.
But even your version is flawed. She lives in Australia and hates what happens to Gazans but is not impacted by what happens to Ukrainians and Uyghurs?
I think the title, opening sentence and paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 & 8 all show that she's talking mostly about love in the sense of support and identify with.
Only paragraph 4 talks about the impossiblity of a personal connection with a nation and the next paragraph makes it clear that it's a side point.
It's an imprecise and out-of-place side point that I don't agree with, but it's not proof of her secret support of authoritarianism.