just discovered the history of the american pledge of allegiance...aaand of fucking course it would have been created by a bigot. so happy i was always resistant and defiant of this practice in school 🤙🏻 this is brainwashing. this is not the way.

'But his favorite bit of copy remained the pledge—“this little formula,” he wrote in 1923, with an ad man’s faith in sloganeering, which “has been pounding away on the impressionable minds of children for a generation."'

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pledge-allegiance-pr-gimmick-patriotic-vow-180956332/