American pride has been perverted to fuel the anti-mask movement

[tulipsandroses]

This is from a high school paper, Gives you some relief, that the kids will be alright

American pride has been perverted to fuel the anti-mask movement

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Many Americans have displayed anti-mask sentiment and have created forums and organized protests to voice out their opposition towards wearing masks, and the very existence of their activism and what it is founded upon is baffling. In most of the reported incidents with these protesters, their argument against masks always goes back to their identity of being American citizens.

Since the time of its founding, Americans have always felt deep pride in the fact that their country fought to establish and keep the many kinds of freedom that it gave to its citizens.
This emphasis on freedom has left some people feeling entitled to having a choice on mandates that are meant to protect citizens, such as wearing masks during a pandemic. Any sentiment that tells them otherwise is seen as oppressive and communistic.

Anti-mask activists believe that wearing a mask infringes on their bodily autonomy, and one of the outcries that could be heard during protests is “My body, my choice”, which is a feminist slogan used to advocate for bodily autonomy and women’s reproductive rights.

It is pitiful that some people equate the harmless measure of wearing personal protective equipment to prevent the spread of a disease with the fight for gender equality.
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America was founded on the principle of human rights and individual freedoms: the right to free speech, the right to practice any religion (or no religion), the right to have a fair and speedy trial, the right to protest and assemble. These are rights that benefit all individual Americans.
Nowhere in the Constitution of the United States of America does it say that wearing a mask to prevent people from catching a virus and potentially dying is forbidden. What would the Founding Fathers think if they saw Karens appropriating the foundational idea of America for their own agenda?

[link:https://www.thecalifornianpaper.com/2020/10/american-pride-has-been-perverted-to-fuel-the-anti-mask-movement/|

[beachbumbob]

1. pride has nothing to do with it, its the idea of "freedom" without consequence and milks the

libertarianism streak in conservatives/ Proves once again the failure of libertarianism as a political/society