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1 month agoI don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with being proud of impersonal achievements. If one of your parents did something considered pretty great, I think it’s generally fine to be proud of it, even though you had no agency in being born to them.
As with anything, though, it’s very possible to take it to the extreme. If an achievement or value becomes your entire personality and you begin to actively disparage others on the basis of not-being-that, as you said, that’s when I call it one of the bad “-isms.”
I see nationalism as a range within that of patriotism, but starting at that extremist point.
I don’t block unless it’s excessive spam. Informational disadvantage, yadda yadda.
I just exercise the same muscle I use to restrain myself from responding to bait on modern day Reddit, since my account there is still active but not posting (yes, even lurking is technically contribution, but there’s too much useful information there for me to justify completely cutting it out).
And for the record, I disagree with block features removing posts from the user on the other end. Public information -> only I get to decide what I do and don’t see. Private information -> only I get to decide what I do and don’t share. A bit idealistic, but we’re talking about a web forum here.