National holidays
Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 14 years ago, in 2012, on the World Wide Web.
Allowing people into a nation who do not identify themselves as part of that nation--who do not speak the language, who do not observe the holidays, who do not know or care about the history and ideals and cultural icons--is simply suicidal.
— Timothy Sandefur Illegal Alienation, at Positive Liberty (30 March 2006)
Now I am sure that all of you properly assimilated Americans realized that June 14th is Flag Day -- a national commemoration of the military colors of this bayonet-bordered Union, first recognized in 1916 by the rabid white supremacist xenophobe, warmongering political persecutor, and President of the United States Thomas Woodrow Wilson. And I do hope that you all have observed this civic holy-day in a manner befitting the solemnity of the occasion, and the importance of such cultural icons to the flourishing -- indeed, the survival -- of so great a nation.
So perish all compromises with tyranny! And let all the people say, Amen!
--William Lloyd Garrison
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I find it irritating that June 14th also happens to be my birthday. Well, it’s not like I celebrate that either.