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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 3184368" data-attributes="member: 44954">Learning our history without being blinded by patriotism is some sort of purity test?The song was written during the war of 1812, we had already created a country.I find it odd you would say the song is about fighting for a country without tyranny, considering the slaves Key's lyrics refer to had been living under tyranny in the US.  They gained their freedom by fighting for the British, who had already outlawed the slave trade while we were busy building an economy around it. It seems the right wants to shut down any factual discussion of history and replace it with your revisionist blind patriotism version.Why are you so butt hurt that people are talking about the history of the song?</blockquote>