False Pride

 

 

Texas doesn't want the reasons for the new Federal Holiday Juneteeth to be taught in schools, saying it goes against Texas Values, which I suspect they mean white supremacy. I'm not sure how much kids pay attention to the reason behind patriotic holidays, but it is a chance to expose them to history. Good history only.

Unfortunately kids are never taught bad history, the things the U.S. did wrong and shouldn't be repeated. That's why people freak when a football player kneels at the National Anthem to point out injustice. That's why they support war when the U.S. is the aggressor. Or they never recognize the part the U.S. has had in the immigrants at the southern border. They have been exposed to partial lies/partial truths.

They just don't know the whole story.

It's like the wife who thinks she has the perfect marriage while her husband is banging his secretary or secretaries.

Pride in things done well should be celebrated. But pride that ignores things that need to be corrected or even admitted as not being right, is false pride, is ignorance and/or even delusion. It can lead to wars for soldiers to die for a fake cause. 

False pride in a country, any country, is dangerous.