American nationalism has suppressed foreign-coded dissent since the republic’s founding

Evidence

All, including the USA, were creole states, formed and led by people who shared a common language and common descent with those against whom they fought. Indeed, it is fair to say that language was never even an issue in these early struggles for national liberation. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 212 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: WWI repression of dissent pushed Progressive jurists toward stronger speech protections — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 168; Coercive Americanization backfired, driving minorities into their own defensive nationalisms — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 1531; Nationalist ideology turns dissent into treason and undermines civil society — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 56 (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Patriotic sentiment remains conceptually or empirically separable from destructive nationalism in practice #complicates (0.80)
• Early American nationalisms did not depend on language difference #complicates (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 212