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I never thought about the taxidermy/portraits of natives connection!! That is SO true. I also love the “you know one word, you say it with pride” advice 💓 finally: the pledge of allegiance said every day is NEVER NOT WEIRD. “What?! We’re in the army/classroom now?” I effin hate it

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I hate the pledge. Not only is it... what's that word? Indoctrinating people into blind obedience, but it's also Christian. A double-whammy of ick, from my perspective.

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✊🏽

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At some point I began to say it as "one nation under law". Still not awesome ( I like the 4-H pledge much better) but at least it gets rid of that bit of -centrism.

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I say "one nation under dog" 😂

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Truly

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I wouldn't even stand up for the pledge in high school when I was still (mostly) a fundamentalist Christian. Allegiance to a flag? Hell no.

Not that I would have put it exactly that way just yet.

I suppose I could have floated a false idols argument back then, but I came to my senses by senior year and realized I was surrounded by those everywhere. Later on it would become clear that the church I was breaking out of was contained in a bigger church, and so on, and so on, and so on.

Occasionally they hold something worth keeping--while walking out yet another set of doors.

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